Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

Entrepreneur Partnerships - Creating Business Growth #mikemichalowicz #businessgrowth #entrepreneur

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dave Worden reflects on his experience with business partnerships, focusing on his collaboration with Greg Eckler at Prosper Group. He describes Eckler as an integrator‑oriented, logic‑driven partner, while he himself operates at a high‑level, visionary level. The contrast is likened to Spock and Captain Kirk, or a helicopter versus a tank. By combining Eckler’s ground‑level, detail‑focused analysis with Worden’s big‑picture vision, they have been able to identify and rescue distressed portfolio companies. Worden notes that over half of the companies they invest in have moved from a distressed state to healthy, high‑growth organizations in a short period, attributing this success to the complementary perspectives of the partnership.

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I've been very lucky. I've been in many business partnerships. The vast majority, hands down, is a constructive. Different viewpoints. A person who's very integrator oriented and not innovation oriented is Greg Eckler. So we started Prosper Group. It's an investment company. And what's so interesting is it's like Spock and Captain Kurt, me and him. Like, he'll go in and he just hits all of these logical points. Yeah. And he makes really good observations. The challenges he'll get buried in the logic. Like, you can just keep on spinning deeper and deeper. Right. My reaction to it is I see a vision and we can move through much quicker, but it's very surface level. So I'm talking at 30,000ft. He's talking on the ground. And so we both have to be appreciative of our different approaches. It's resulted in a very powerful return. We've invested in all these companies. We have many of them, I think over 50% now have turned from distress state, that's who we specialize in, to very healthy organizations in a short period. Because one person can see the ground, one person can see from above. It actually sparks growth. Yeah. One's in a helicopter, one's in a tank or something. One in a Model T. There you go.