Franchisee Aims To Score In Business Monitoring Via The Web

Post Gazette:

Books and magazine articles about entrepreneurship, not to mention professors in business schools, hammer at the importance of having an exit strategy in place while building a business.

Less emphasized is a corollary question, “What does an entrepreneur do after exiting a business?”

For Paul Patrick, of Cranberry, the answer became, “Start another one.

After Mr. Patrick, 46, sold his franchisee’s stake in an outdoor lighting company last year, he wanted to build a different type of business, but wasn’t sure what kind. But he had some clues.

“I knew I didn’t want to do retail, and I knew I didn’t want to do fast food,” he said.

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