A practical guide for business owners deciding whether one company is enough At some point, almost every successful business owner is told the same thing by a friend, a banker or a fellow founder: “You should put a holding company on top.” It sounds sophisticated. It sounds like something serious businesses do. And in the […]
Most closely held companies do not start out as one business. They start out as one company that quietly becomes three or four businesses over a decade — a manufacturing line here, a trading arm there, a piece of land bought long ago, and a new-age digital venture that the next generation now runs. For […]