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Three of the Most Common Challenges for Creative Founders

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Betsy Pearce is the founder of Pearce LLP, she is a lawyer and a coach who works with an international clientele of founders, executives, and creative leaders. Betsy has worked with over 50 companies before the establishment of Pearce LLP through the merger and acquisition phases of their organization. As a coach, Betsy provides business leaders with insights on how to find investors and build companies that age well after the sale.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • Betsy Pearce talks about the need for complementary skills in any organization and the challenges the lack of it poses 

  • What kinds of improvements does a business partner offer a creative founder?

  • How to identify what's missing in your organization?

  • How to ask the right questions when selling your company

  • The top reasons why founders partner with the wrong investors

In this episode…

There are so many questions that creative founders forget to ask when they start considering the possible sale of their company. Many of them fail to ask the questions related to what they will do once the sale is done, who can still report to them, and where their interests stand once it’s a done deal. This is where Betsy Pearce comes in. Betsy is the founder of Pearce LLP and she uses her incredible skills to help creative founders, executives, and leaders navigate their way through mergers and acquisitions.

In this week's episode, Betsy Pearce of Pearce LLP is interviewed in her own show by John Corcoran of Rise25 where they discuss the importance of having balance in an organization between the creative founder and traditional administrative tasks that need to be performed. Betsy also explains the thoughts most creative founders have after the sale of their company and why competent counsel is necessary during the acquisition process. Stay tuned.

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Betsy Pearce is the founder of Pearce LLP. She is a lawyer and professional coach for creative lawyers, executives, and founders. She helps them navigate the process of mergers and acquisitions, and she also provides them great insight on finding the right people to work with in business.

To learn more about Betsy and the services she offers, contact her at pearce@pearcellp.com or visit her coaching website and her legal representation website.

Michael Quinn