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Developing a Dynamic Business Plan

James Hendries

A well-crafted business plan can be a blueprint for entrepreneurial confidence. This multifaceted tool is as important to established business owners looking to grow their companies as it is to budding entrepreneurs. A business plan defines your business, outlines your goals, and lays a strong foundation for achieving them.

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#FA Success Ep 373: Transitioning To Launch A New RIA By Taking On Passive Investors For Startup Capital, With Ben Hockema

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What's unique about Ben, though, is that he spent 13 years successfully working his way up the career track at a growing advisory firm, starting as an intern and eventually making partner… only to realize within 18 months that it wasn't a good culture fit for him and that he'd need to leave, but then figured out how to take on passive equity (..)

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (March 2024)

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SEI invests $10M into TIFIN to support its development of new AI tools for wealth management, in a model that could both help SEI navigate the infamous "Innovator's Dilemma" of being a large incumbent trying to innovate, and could represent a model that helps to fund more early- and mid-stage AdvisorTech startups (especially as the VC/PE funding environment (..)

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#FA Success Ep 361: Scaling A $2.4B Advisory Enterprise With Debt-Financed Acquisitions Into High-Productivity Pods, With Peter Tiboris

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We also talk about how Peter started in the industry in New York city in the aftermath of 9/11 as an insurance salesperson charged with cold-calling potential customers (and how he took inspiration from the work of author Nick Murray to overcome the challenge of hearing "no" from prospective clients on a regular basis and push through to grow his book (..)

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (September 2023)

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This month's edition kicks off with the news that WiserAdvisor, one of the longest-running lead generation services in the industry, has acquired IndyFin, a startup advisor rating platform that had aspired to be the 'Yelp for Advisors' – which on the one hand provides WiserAdvisor with an opportunity to jump into the business of client reviews (..)

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (April 2024)

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Advyzon and Panoramix competing against Orion)… with the question of whether they, too, will someday raise their prices as they gain traction as well?

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (January 2024)

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From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: JPMorgan has announced plans to shut down its robo-advisor offering after just four years, highlighting broadly the challenges of robo-advisors to overcome the challenging economics of acquiring and serving small clients, and in (..)