Glenn Dunlap - Being An Entrepreneur Across Multiple Industries

We welcome Glenn Dunlap, who is the Co-Founder & CEO of Peerview Data, a SaaS firm that specializes in benchmarking and comparative analytics solutions for CPA firms.

And like most entrepreneurs, Glenn runs several companies.

Prior to launching Peerview Data, Dunlap was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Milestone Advisors, an accounting and advisory firm, where he provided business strategy, corporate finance, and part-time CFO services to emerging market companies.

In 2006, Dunlap also launched Big League Tours, a tour operations business that provides unique, high-end tours to all of the Major League Baseball stadiums. In 2016, the company became an Official Partner of Major League Baseball and now hosts 40+ baseball tours annually. Dunlap started the business out of a passion for the sport, the enjoyment of traveling to baseball venues, and the desire to see all 30 stadiums with his dad & son (which he has completed!).

So what is Glenn's Peerview Data philosophy when he sees something else has to work better, we have to do a better job?

"This may not work, but..." So I went to some of my former clients and said, you know, hey, this may not work, but...and they went, "Yeah, let's do it."

Everybody wants to know how they're doing versus their competition. That's what Peerview Data provides. Data can help an entrepreneur to take a moment and reflect. Benchmarks aren't the "end all be all." But what can you learn from them, and what data, to compare and learn.

How did he choose the entrepreneur path at Ball State University?

We're out on the loading dock one day and this guy says, "What are you what are you studying?" And I go, "I don't know. I haven't declared yet." And he goes, "You need to be an entrepreneurship major." Like, I don't even know how to spell it! "What are you talking about?" And he said, "Yeah, my wife's involved in this thing. Go over there right now and declare that as your major." So I went over there and looked at it and I was like, "Well, this sounds kind of interesting". And then I signed up for the class. I bought the book, I read it cover to cover the first night. I'd never done that with a school textbook ever, and was I like, "Wow, this is it. This was what I wanted to do."

Working for the big CPA firms, how and why did you decide to strike out on your own?

What was going through my mind was, if I can sell it for you knuckleheads, I'm going to go sell it for myself. So I literally kind of walked out of that room a little bit bigger and went back to my office and I started calling clients and said, "Hey, if I leave here, would you follow me?" And they followed me.

But he didn't do this alone. Throughout the process, as he went through, his mid-thirties, he had multiple mentors to guide him, to give him confidence.

Most entrepreneurs have some kind of superpower that basically sets them apart from their competition. What does Glenn consider his to be?

It's a willingness to ask that stupid question. It served me well when I was working with clients in a consultative situation. Look, maybe I don't understand this. Help me understand this. And I don't know your business as well as you, but can you tell me this or can that that I'm having trouble lining that up. Help me make sense of that.

So what is Glenn's endgame?

I love what I do. You know, I'd be happy doing this the rest of my life. So it's kind of one of those things when you get asked the question about the endgame, it's kind of like, does it have to have the end? I don't want to stop.

Glenn has spent his entire professional career working in and with entrepreneurial, high-growth companies. As a seasoned business advisor and small business executive, Glenn has consulted daily with entrepreneurs on strategic and business planning, building financial projections, determining the appropriate capital structure and raising capital.

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