Positive Enterprise Value

On this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast we are joined by Justin Donald an entrepreneur, investor, and author of the Lifestyle Investor. Justin's built a stellar reputation helping other successful founders and entrepreneurs move from being what he calls “time starved operators,” to becoming intentional investors who design their lives around freedom, not just financial returns. Yo...

Hey everybody, this is Pete Worrell from Bigelow, and I'd like to welcome you to this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast. In this podcast we interview seasoned, successful, high-performing Entrepreneur Owner-Managers (EOMs), people who own and lead significant enterprises in a variety of domains and niches across the country. Have you ever noticed that some private enterprises succes...

Hello everyone, this is Pete Worrell of Bigelow with another episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast. On this series we interview seasoned, successful, high-performing Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to discover from them a few of the breadcrumbs they have left along the way in the forest; a little bit like Hansel and Gretel as they traveled through the forest and ultimately, successfully nav...

Chad and his wife Kim were the former owners of Marco Rubber & Plastics, a o-ring and seals provider, which they turned into a high-tech supplier of industrial products. With tremendous access to products that they both had in their inventory and that their suppliers had in their inventory, they turned Marco Rubber into a marketplace platform for the industrial products industries they served (thi...

On the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast, I get a chance to interview some of the most amazing and interesting Entrepreneur Owner-Managers (EOMs) on the planet and deconstruct some of their entrepreneurial journey…from disrupting their industries to being a game changer in their industries to potentially having a capital gain and using the liquidity from that to fuel the next chapters of their liv...

On this latest episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast, I am thrilled to welcome my good friend Jay Lapeyre. Jay is the second-generation Entrepreneur Owner-Manager (“EOM”) of Laitram LLC. Laitram is based in the New Orleans area but operates worldwide with over 4,000 employees. Jay's dad was a consummate entrepreneur who, with more than 200 patents to his name, invented a number of innov...

Have you noticed, as I have, that some private companies successfully transition through all of the evolutions and revolutions they have over the years in leadership management, separate from leadership, even ownership? Some in changing environments end up with terrific new majority owners, moving gracefully into the next interesting and rewarding chapter of their lives, surrounded by friends with...

For over 30 years, I've had the fun of meeting with thousands of seasoned, successful private business owners and working closely with hundreds of them. In this podcast, I interview some of the most high-performing successful EOMs from both the for profit, and the not-for-profit domains. On this episode I interviewed Kyle Reagan who is the Chairman and CEO of DECCO, Inc., a mechanical contractor t...

This is Pete Worrell from Bigelow, and I'm happy to bring you another episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast. Today my interview guest is Flora Bowley. Flora is a world-known artist, entrepreneur, teacher, retreat center owner, who makes her principal headquarters on the west coast. She's an example of an entrepreneur as a creative, and if you've listened to Positive Enterprise Value or...

Hi everyone, last week I had the fun of being a guest on the 137th episode of The Atlas Society Asks (TASA) podcast [maybe give a link to the podcast page here]. The Atlas Society Asks is hosted by Jennifer A Grossman, the President & CEO of The Atlas Society. The Atlas Society celebrates the remarkable potential and power of the individual and promotes learning about the capitalist system juxtapo...

On this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast, I am thrilled to have as my guests, my friends and clients, Dave and Cindy Francis, who have kind of a hero's journey to tell you about. Dave and Cindy have had many chapters in their journey as entrepreneurs. They started out with Cindy growing up in the family business, Fowler High Precision, which was run by her dad, Fred Fowler, who him...

Today’s interviewee on this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast is Heidi Feinstein. Heidi is the CEO of Hearth Food Garden, a startup business in formation which will open its European style food market on the street level of 60 Penhallow Street in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire sometime in late 2022. Heidi, whose warmth and charisma oozes through in this podcast, previously was a...

On today’s episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast I am interviewing, Jennifer A. Grossman who goes by the nickname JAG. JAG is the President and CEO of The Atlas Society. JAG lives in Malibu and travels so extensively, I'm not sure that she would say they have a headquarters every- anywhere. As you might have guessed from the name, The Atlas Society, which is, drawn from the book Atlas S...

My guest today on the Positive Enterprise Value podcast is Dr. George Shapiro. George is the Chief Medical Innovation Officer of Fountain Life. Fountain was formed about three years ago, with the mission to revolutionize the current healthcare system (actually I would call it the sick care system), by switching the primary focus from a sick care reactive system to a pro-active and preventative hea...

Today, my guests are Don Oakes and Fran Philip, who came to be entrepreneurs in the second chapter of their professional lives. Both Don and Fran were very successful senior executives with L.L. Bean. Fran, ultimately, was the chief merchandising officer, and Don worked in senior positions in creative and brand. Fran has a great deal of professional governance experience not only with private comp...

In the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast, we have the fun of interviewing and listening to some of the most seasoned, successful Entrepreneur Owner-Managers on the planet. The journey through their lives and through their enterprises, through their communities, through their families, and in their successes they leave behind breadcrumbs for us to see and to examine. This week, I have the fun of in...

Today, I had the fun of interviewing Jason and Amy Case. Founded by Jason Case in 2009 and headquartered in southern Massachusetts, Case Facilities Management Solutions has grown rapidly to become a leading tech-enabled service provider for snow and ice management, landscaping, sweeping, and janitorial services for over 10,000 customer sites. Case FMS utilizes a proprietary technology platform and...

Most of our podcast interviews have been with CEO’s of mature, highly successful enterprises. Today, we have the fun of interviewing Bill Kapp, MD who is the CEO of a two year old startup—Fountain Life. Fountain, originally conceived by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis is bringing together state of the art therapies with world class practitioners to address health span—not merely lifespan, but hea...

Today we have done something different, and to make it easy for Positive Enterprise Value podcast listeners, we are recording this blog post as an audio only. Hope you enjoy it. This week I am speaking to you about the private transaction market. We are in a time of abundance Superabundance of capital. Private company enterprise values are approaching all-time highs. And with good reason. Entrepre...

Today, my guest is Chet Jordan. Chet is one of the co-founders and co-owners of Digital Architecture, a business that he and his partner Ken Blais began. I think it's accurate to say they began it in Maine before they moved it to Florida. Their mission was to digitize and make it easy to use college and university course catalogs. They've expanded into way more than that, but that was the initial...

Last month we held our first Bigelow Connectors event live at The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth, NH. We gathered 80 of the best expert advisors to Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to focus on unlocking our collaborative energy, build relationships, engage in scholarly discussion, and hear from our keynote speaker, Greg McKeown, the New York Times Best Selling Author of Essentialism (2018) and Effor...

On this latest episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast our guest is Ken Johnson from MAS Medical Staffing. Ken, and his partner Jay Hamel, owned and ran MAS Medical for the last 20 years, building it into a very well-known and respected medical staffing business, serving the Northeast and the middle Atlantic states. Jay and Ken built the business basically from scratch. Twenty years later...

On the latest episode of the Positive Enterprise Podcast my guest is Adeline Druart. Adeline is the president and CEO of Vermont Creamery, which is a part of the Land O'Lakes group of companies. Adeline has a fascinating story! After graduating from university in France, she came to Vermont Creamery as an intern, met the love of her life—both in her personal life and, actually I would say, in her...

Do Entrepreneur Owner-Managers fundamentally operate at the level of data and analysis, or do EOMs fundamentally operate at the level of feelings and emotions? That’s the question that Jim Collins famously posed to Brené Brown and I loved it so much I posed it to Lisa Allen, the Principal Stockholder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the third generation family business Ziegenfelder Corporati...

Growing up with her family in Bolivia, do you think Jan Herschkowitz ever dreamed she’d become a successful entrepreneur business owner in America? I don’t. Having already gotten her professional start, Jan got the call from her Dad that he needed temporary help in the business that he acquired called PRL. She left a promising career with an electronics manufacturer in Chicago and traveled home fo...