There is a puzzle at the center of the business services market for professionals. The large registered agent and corporate filing companies have mediocre reputations among the attorneys and accountants who use them most heavily. Everyone in the sector knows this. The attorneys know it. The vendors know it. And yet the churn rate is […]
Starting a business in America involves a predictable set of administrative steps. Form an entity. Appoint a registered agent. File annual reports. Handle UCC filings when financing comes in. Keep track of what has changed in the regulatory environment and make sure you are still compliant. None of that is complicated in theory. In practice […]
There is a version of competitive advantage that gets discussed constantly in startup culture: network effects, proprietary data, switching costs. All real. All worth having. There is another version that gets discussed much less, probably because it is harder to draw on a whiteboard. Deep domain expertise in a specific B2B market, accumulated over years […]
Most people who call themselves entrepreneurs built one thing. Adam Gottbetter has built several, helped sell two of them, and gone back into the same sector by choice — not because the first exit did not work, but because the market had reset enough to be worth entering again. That kind of discipline is rarer […]
I spent 10 years developing hotels in South Florida before I moved into luxury condos, and I expected the switch to mean starting over. It didn’t. Most of what hospitality taught me wasn’t about hotels at all — it was about what a building owes the people inside it, and residential development tends to skip […]
Real estate development is a financing problem that happens to produce a building at the end. The building is the output. The deal structure that makes it possible is where the actual work lives — and where most projects succeed or fail long before the first shovel goes in. Adam Gottbetter, Principal of ASG Development, […]
Most people who call themselves entrepreneurs have built one company. Adam Gottbetter helped build several in the same sector, helped sell two, and then chose to re-enter that sector. Not because an earlier exit disappointed, but because the market had reset enough to be worth entering again.
