Mindset & Leadership
We Heard No (A Lot) Before We Hit Lucky #13
The first answer was no. We wanted to sell the book in bulk. Not as a vanity play. As the business model. Our whole launch plan was built on one...
180 No’s and a Best-seller list
We've sold two companies. We've sat across the table from buyers and negotiated the terms that decided what we walked away with. Those were hard. Selling a book was almost as hard. Some days, even harder. Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER came out on September 22. After one...
How This Book Actually Got Written
The book did not start as a book. One of us was in the middle of a brutal personal stretch. The kind where the ground moves and you start auditing everything behind you. What did we actually get for that many years of work? Two companies built and sold, with nine kids...
The Year We Made the Most Money and Felt the Worst
Two years after COVID nearly took the legs out from under us, Clermont Partners had its best year. The ESG practice we had bet the farm on was finally paying. Retainers were up. New logos were signing. The pricing decision that had terrified us, moving our target from...
An Advance Reader Quit at Chapter 4. Why We’re Ecstatic.
Advance copies of Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER went out a few weeks ago. Most of what comes back at that stage is polite. Nice writing. Great stories. Cannot wait to buy one for my sister. Then two notes came in that we have not stopped talking about. The first: "I...
The Email That Sat in Drafts for Six Weeks
Most founders price the risk of asking. Almost nobody prices the risk of staying quiet. Early on, we built a spreadsheet of every person we knew. We exported our LinkedIn contacts, painstakingly scoured our email boxes (pre-AI of course) and added the membership...
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