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Dentists - Transition YourselfBad Broker Behavior: Broker Generated ValuationsBad Broker Behavior: Broker Generated Valuations The Bad Broker Behavior series is intended to highlight some of the bad behaviors of some of the dental practice brokers in the US. I do not suggest that all brokers behave this way, only that some do. This series is offered to help dental practice sellers and buyers … Bad Broker Behavior: Perverse IncentivesBad Broker Behavior: Perverse Incentives The Bad Broker Behavior series is intended to highlight some of the bad behaviors of some of the dental practice brokers in the US. I do not suggest that all brokers behave this way, only that some do. This series is offered to help dental practice sellers and buyers beware… … Bad Broker Behavior: Buying the Dental Practice ListingBad Broker Behavior: Buying the listing The Bad Broker Behavior series is intended to highlight some of the bad behaviors of some of the dental practice brokers in the US. I do not suggest that all brokers behave this way, only that some do. This series is offered to help dental practice sellers and buyers … A hair-brained idea: Social capital, Healthcare Co-ops & Very High Deductible InsuranceI have always been a fan of high deductible health insurance. Insurance is for unthinkable risks, not everyday expenses. For years I have had a $5,000 deductible policy for my family. Before I had an HSA, I just set the deductible money aside and used it as needed to cover out of pocket expenses. When HSAs became … Bad Broker Behavior: dental practice transition representation mismatchBad Broker Behavior: unbalanced representation Imagine a teeter totter with two 100 pound boys on either side. They are having fun going up and down, up and down. It is easy to have fun because of their balance (both of them exert the same gravitational force), and their own leg muscles provide the fun. Now imagine … What Dentists should know about Websites and Social Media (Facebook, LInkedIn and Twitter)Many of you will have heard of Social Media for Dentists if you are active on Facebook. Jason Liscomb and Steven Knight are the super powers behind this amazing business. If you had done a Google search on them you would find landing pages for their books (both of them are extensive 400 page … Tim Draper, the best friend a failing dentist never hadThe morning was already too hot. I was on my way into work. It was July in the mid 1990′s. I despised my heavy winter coat laying on the seat next to me. I realized I had slid to the lowest rung that a computer programmer could fear. I had been assigned for the past … Why new dentists should always buy a dental practice instead of starting a practice from scratchMany dental students ponder the great question, “Should I buy a practice or start my own?”. They may romantically dream of creating a practice from the ground up, potentially inventing a new way of serving patients and becoming rich and famous in the process. This is what most people think of as entrepreneurship: creating something … Practice Transition on the RocksThe new dentist is OK with the asking price… but his wife is not. She feels the senior dentist is trying to take advantage of them. She doesn’t trust the selling broker’s valuation numbers. Then the selling dentist’s wife gets into the fray, feeling the buyers are trying to steal the practice that they both … A Tale of Two TribesThe Goshute Indians lived in the southwestern deserts of what is now Utah and Arizona for many hundreds of years. Subsisting on roots (hence the name Digger Indians), seeds and small game, they were a part of the ecosystem. Their populations ebbed and flowed with environmental forces. The Comanche Indians lived further north and east of … | ||||