Entrepreneur - Ben Parsons

Current or Primary Business(s) - KKP , SignCraft

Topics of Conversation

• Buying vs. Building businesses (both businesses acquired)
• Merging company cultures
• Financial background helps you take better risk
• Value aligned, complementary skills = business partner success
• Working with creatives - trust and limiting ego
• trusting the team, but staying in the mix
• Mail and print are new disrupters in a digital age
• Early financing - if you wouldn't borrow from grandma consider reexamining
• Buying a business without enough equity... because few do
• 24 hour rule - take time to react

Recommendations and Links

• The psychology of money
• Unicorn in the woods
• Codfather