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Reflecting on My Small Business Struggles and the Gift They Provided

September 2, 2024
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Focal Pointe
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This article is written in an “As Told To” format. John Munie is the founder and president of Focal Pointe, a $50 million firm specializing in commercial landscape maintenance, based in Caseyville, Illinois. During the early years, I would look at the Top 100/150 lists and wonder what those guys knew that I didn’t. How […]

How I Stopped Being a Frog in a Slowly Boiling Pot

July 5, 2024
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Rossen Landscape
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This article is written in an “As Told To” format. Jeff Rossen is the visionary/CEO of Rossen Landscape, a $7 million firm specializing in high-end residential design-build, installation and maintenance in Great Falls, Virginia.In 2001 when I was just starting out, we would cut lawns 28 to 30 times in a growing season. By 2008, […]