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Alisa Cohn

New York
As seen in: From Start-Up to Grown-Up, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, UOL, Business Insider, Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Infobae, Flipboard, Inc. and
Startup & CEO Coach; advisor; author and podcast host of From Start-up to Grown-up; journalist; angel investor; Broadway investor; ENTJ ftw!

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#exitplanning #founderceo #businessvaluation #mergersandacquisitions

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By Alisa Cohn, Bruce Eckfeldt
| LinkedIn
Hard Truth: The More Your Business Needs You, The Less It's Worth. Most founders build their companies around themselves. They're the best salesperson. The one clients trust. The person who knows where everything is. That feels like an asset. To a buyer, it's a liability. Bill Snow has been selling middle-market companies for nearly 20 years. He called it a "bitter pill" — and he's right. If the business stops working when you step away, a buyer isn't acquiring a company. They're acquiring a dependency.
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The 1 Strategy This AI Founder Uses to Manage Employees Decades Older Than Him

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By Alisa Cohn
| Inc. Verified
Wispr Flow founder Tanay Kothari shares his ‘love language’ framework for leading senior teams and the unconventional strategy that grew revenue 10x in 5 months. Tanay Kothari has been going against the grain since he was 9 years old. “I’ve always wanted to prove people wrong,” he said, when he talked about why he started coding at age 9. An older kid had told him he was too young to code.
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#parenting #family #connection #personalgrowth #founderlif

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By Tracy Jefferson, Alisa Cohn, Gina Mollicone-Long
| LinkedIn
By The Time Your Kid Turns 18, 90% Of Your Time Together Is Already Behind You. I visited my son at college recently. Walked his campus. Ate at his favorite spots. Saw the life he's building. It hit me: this is what it looks like now. No more daily conversations at dinner. No more driving him to practice. The everyday proximity is gone. What's left has to be intentional. Here's what I'm learning: the relationship doesn't end when they leave. It evolves. You're no longer parenting day-to-day.
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