How Gaining Equity Changed My Life: Nickolas Biermaier’s Story

Having ownership makes you more committed to the business’ success and more interested in the people who work there, because they are your employees. Your entire mindset changes, making your business involvement a much more personal experience. The investment also leads to a much more fulfilling work life, because you know your efforts are financing [...]

Should Your Employment Agreement Include a Non-Compete Clause?

Open the cover of virtually any trade publication, scroll through VIN, or join a veterinary Facebook group and it won’t take long to find articles, posts, and ensuing arguments around non-compete agreements.  While we don’t have “the” answer—we don’t believe a single answer fits every situation—we’ve turned to two experienced veterinary professionals to hear their [...]

Putting People First in Veterinary Medicine

As a veterinarian going through an MBA program at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, I have had the incredible opportunity to explore how business concepts and ideas used in large companies can apply to veterinary hospitals.  Prioritizing employees as stakeholders One of the major projects assigned during my first semester centered around prioritizing stakeholders. [...]

How I Found the Perfect Buyer for My Veterinary Practice

I have been in private practice for 31 years. I started my veterinary practice from scratch 21 years ago as a sole owner. Like many veterinarians new to practice ownership, I put all my blood, sweat, and tears into my “professional baby.” The first year was spent seeing patients Monday through Saturday, and playing janitor [...]

Finding the Right Buyer for Your Veterinary Practice

So, you have decided to sell your veterinary practice. For most practice owners, this is the most important business decision they have ever contemplated. Obviously, selling is not as simple as posting a “For sale” sign out front, and finding the right buyer is paramount to a successful transaction.  Pre-sale considerations There are certain questions [...]

5 Tips for Creating Positive Change in Veterinary Practices From the Frontlines

Teamwork and collaboration are the heart of veterinary medicine. At its best, this group dynamic creates safer patient care, personalized customer service, and a culture of continual learning. Unfortunately, when improving the workplace and cultivating practice growth, most change happens from the top-down, and veterinary support team members (i.e., technicians, assistants, and client service representatives [...]

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