Your business
growth whisperer.
Helping business owners break through to the next level of growth and scale without giving up their equity (and soul) to do so.
AskMyBoard: Guiding Entrepreneurs to Success
AskMyBoard provides strategic insights, tools, and support for growth-minded entrepreneurs and business owners seeking a better future. Whether it’s more profitable growth or a richer exit, our mission is to help you achieve your goals faster. We are passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow their companies, and we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty alongside you in order to do so.
Catapult Method:
Accelerate Profitable Growth
Our proprietary Catapult Method™ is a proven system to accelerate profitable growth by leveraging the same strategies, tactics, and tools the fastest-growing companies use. It leverages the four Pillars of Power™ fundamental to the long-term success of any business. It’s designed by entrepreneurs who know what success means because we’ve started, scaled, and sold multiple businesses, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in exits.
If you want to grow and scale your business faster and are looking for timeless, industry-agnostic, field-tested, practical, and actionable advice on the strategic frameworks, strategies, and tactics used by America’s fastest-growing bootstrapped companies, then Scale Up Faster is for you.
In the spirit of Jim Collins’ seminal book “Good to Great,” Pete Martin spent two and a half years researching, analyzing, and interviewing the fastest-growing bootstrapped companies (the top 1% of the Inc. 5000) to find out how they were able to consistently grow faster than their competitors without becoming beholden to venture capitalists and private equity firms. Find out how they did in Scale Up Faster.
In the book, you’ll discover:
Virtually none of them had a formal business plan - find out what they did instead.
Why did they decide to bootstrap their companies and not seek external capital?
What growth levers did they use to acquire customers faster than their competitors?
What do they do differently to attract star players to their teams?
How these company founders are different from others trying to grow faster.
What they discovered when they hired highly credentialed "experienced executives."
The Key
to Business Thriving
When you want to educate, entertain, and inform your business leader audience and are looking for unique and fresh insights from a multi-year research project on the fastest-growing bootstrapped companies, look no further. Pete Martin spent 2 ½ researching how the top 1% of the Inc. 5000 bootstrapped companies have been able to grow faster than their competitors.
His entertaining, maybe a little cheeky, speaking style will help your audience learn how to grow their companies faster, how these companies consistently attract and hire world-class teams, how they found their unique growth levers, generated the operating cash flow to fund growth, or how they scaled faster operationally. If you resonate with this, then Pete Martin is the guy you need to hire. Combining high energy, humor, and newly discovered insights, Pete delivers.
Pete has keynoted many conferences and was honored to speak at the Milken Institute in between former President Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair!
Business Leader
& Rock Drummer
His previous firm was sold to the global auditing giant KPMG. Pete has personally advised hundreds of C-level executives and business owners across twenty-six industries to grow their companies faster, enhance their business operations, improve their financial performance, and exit richer. Pete currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and enjoys drumming in a classic rock band.
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About Pete Martin
I love starting, scaling, and selling companies (6 so far), playing drums in a classic rock band, exercising, traveling internationally, reading/learning, and most of all, helping business leaders improve the health of their companies and personal wealth through richer exits. My go-to humor is sarcasm, and I was voted class clown in high school for a reason.
Pete Martin has worked in sales, operations, and executive management for over twenty-five years, beginning in sales at IBM, executive management at SAP, and then building six of his own companies. He has personally sold over $1 billion of software, services, and technology to global companies and small to medium-sized businesses. Pete started, scaled, and sold four previous companies (car leasing, systems integration consulting, business process outsourcing, and software distribution).
His previous firm was sold to the global auditing giant KPMG. Pete has personally advised hundreds of C-level executives and business owners across twenty-six industries to grow their companies faster, enhance their business operations, improve their financial performance, and exit richer. Pete currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and enjoys drumming in a classic rock band.
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