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203: Senior Living Isn't The End Of The Line with Walter Ramos, President & CEO, Rogerson Communities
What if the biggest misconception about senior living is that it’s where life winds down?Walter Ramos has spent his career moving between government, law, hospitals and senior living. Today he is President & CEO of Rogerson Communiti...
202: How a City Gets Ready for Growth with Kyle Touchstone, Director of Raleigh Economic Development
What if the incentive package isn't what decides where a company goes?Kyle Touchstone grew up in South Mississippi, the kid of a hardware store owner who watched one large manufacturer change what a small business and its employees could...
201: Building Real Estate Operations that Scale with Leslie Cohen, Ops Alchemy
Founders can run a real estate firm on heroics for a while. At some point, the business needs a system.In this episode of Design Development, Leslie Cohen, Founder and Principal of Ops Alchemy, talks about strengthening operations, reduc...
200: Finding the Opportunity Inside Your Business with 2x Founder Matt Pierce, PIERCE Property Services
What if the most valuable thing a window cleaner brings down from the side of a building isn’t clean glass — but information?Matt Pierce started his career pounding the pavement, walking into restaurants, car dealerships, and stor...
199: How to Engineer Business Value: Scaling Smart, Hiring Right, and Creating Freedom with Rens Hayes IV (Guest Episode)
Most business owners go through a pivotal moment—their first real look behind the curtain at how buyers value companies. For Rens Hayes, that moment came when he went through a sale and due diligence process for his father’s structural steel bu...