by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures There’s a version of cross-cultural business training that I find mostly useless. It goes something like this: don’t point the soles of your feet at someone in Thailand,...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Most founders and business owners spend enormous energy building their companies — and almost none thinking about what happens after them. In my 25 years advising businesses across...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
The most valuable lessons in advisory work don’t come from the wins. They come from the moments that don’t go according to plan. By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures I want to be honest about something...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
The quarterly earnings call is a powerful accountability mechanism. It’s also, occasionally, a terrible way to run a business. By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures My work spans both the family office world and...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
The more markets you work in, the more clearly you see what’s universal and what’s not. Most companies have those two categories exactly backwards. By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Twenty-five years of...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Scale is an asset when scale is what you need. When it isn’t, it becomes overhead — passed on to you. By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Let me say at the outset: the large consulting firms employ some of the...
