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...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Early in my career, I made a decision that, in retrospect, was almost certainly wrong. I was working on a market entry strategy for a client expanding into a new geography. I had the...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Not long ago, I sat across the table from the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company in Central Europe. He was dismissive. ESG, he told me, was a passing trend — a checkbox exercise...
by Scott Gelbard | Jul 15, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Capital is the oxygen of a business. Too little and you suffocate. But here’s what most entrepreneurs learn too late: the wrong kind of capital, taken at the wrong time, on the...
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, 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...
