by Scott Gelbard | Sep 1, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
I have sat across negotiating tables in New York, London, Tokyo, Dubai, and half a dozen cities in between. I have watched experienced executives walk into high-stakes international negotiations with polished decks, confident handshakes, and completely wrong...
by Scott Gelbard | Aug 12, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
A bad business strategy rarely announces itself on day one. In most cases, it arrives disguised as a promising opportunity: strong market potential, enthusiastic stakeholders, attractive projections, or a competitor making a similar move. The real danger is not making...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Every generation of business leaders inherits a version of the world shaped by the one before it. The tools change, the markets shift, the vocabulary evolves — but the underlying challenge...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures When a cross-border partnership unravels, the post-mortem usually lands on one of two explanations: strategic misalignment or cultural differences. Both are real factors. But in my...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures I’ve sat across the table from a lot of leaders in crisis mode. And almost every time, somewhere in the first conversation, I hear a version of the same sentence: “We should...
