We have met a lot of female entrepreneurs over the past 30 years. Some built businesses that changed their lives. Others built businesses that consumed them. And a surprising number built something impressive on paper that quietly fell apart the moment they stopped...
We used to think charm was a competitive advantage. Thirty years selling to Fortune 1000 executives as the only women in the room will cure you of that fast. The clients who hired us at Clermont Partners didn’t hire us because they liked us. Some of them...
Victoria called me on a Tuesday. It was not a good Tuesday. We had just lost a client we’d been nurturing for two years. Not a small client. A client that represented a good enough sized chunk of our revenue forecast for the year. She didn’t want advice....
Two weeks ago, we introduced you to the Kitchen Cabinet—the three types of advisors every entrepreneur needs. Last week, we dove deep into Compensators, the people who fill your blind spots and teach you what you don’t know. This week, let’s talk about...
Last week’s post on the Kitchen Cabinet hit a nerve. Our DMs exploded with questions about Champions, Compensators, and Connectors—the three types of advisors every entrepreneur needs. Specifically, everyone wanted to know: “Wait, what exactly IS a...
Nobody tells you this before you start a business: the smartest people in the room are often the ones who weren’t invited. We were standing in our respective kitchens at 6:47 AM, both still in workout clothes, staring at an opportunity that should have been a...
