by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Everyone focuses on the number. The headline valuation. The multiple of EBITDA. The per-share figure that gets announced in the press release. After 25 years advising businesses through...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Most advisory boards are theater. A collection of impressive names on a website, assembled to signal credibility rather than generate it. The founders who built them were well-intentioned...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures I’ve had the same conversation dozens of times. A successful entrepreneur — someone who has spent twenty or thirty years building a business that generates real wealth — sits...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Early in my career, I worked alongside a CEO who had an extraordinary gift: he could walk into a room full of frustrated stakeholders and, within thirty minutes, have everyone aligned and...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures In 2019, one of my clients — a mid-market distribution company operating across three continents — had what looked like a textbook international strategy. Diversified markets, strong...
