Rick Andrade

Rick Andrade is an investment banker at Janas Associates in Pasadena, CA, where he helps CEOs and business owners buy, sell, and finance middle-market companies.

Rick earned his BA and MBA from UCLA, along with his Series 7, 63, & 79 FINRA securities licenses. He is also a CA Real Estate Broker, a volunteer SBA/SCORE instructor, and blogs at RickAndrade.com on issues important to business owners. Please note this article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered in any way an offer to buy or sell a security. Securities are offered through JCC Capital Markets LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC.

Rick Andrade is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Education and Career

The Real Secret to ‘Success’

Rick AndradeEducation and Career

Success 2023: (noun) The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. The gaining of fame or prosperity. Who owns the definition of Success: Webster, Wikipedia, Wall Street, your raving fans, or you? Look it up! Nearly every online dictionary prints the same definition. Success is synonymous with achieving something: power,...

Success and Leadership

Let’s Talk China for a Minute

Rick AndradeSuccess and Leadership

In America, July 4th is Independence Day. A time for celebratory fireworks and backyard BBQs with friends and family. It should also be a time for our collective reflection on our lives, the value of truly being a free nation, and on the blood sweat and tears of the honorable...

Tech and Innovation

A.I. – It’s Altogether Insane So Now What?

Rick AndradeTech and Innovation

Like rain, when it falls, everything gets wet. And when it rains a lot, the ground around you can sink you deep into the mud. Such is the case; each passing day that confirms it, it’s raining Artificial Intelligence (AI). And the real downpour is about to drop golf ball-sized...

CEO Insights

Ever Heard of ChatGPT for Executives? Better Update Your Resume

Rick AndradeCEO Insights

At first, it seemed as if it came out of nowhere, like an asteroid hitting the center of the cyber-ocean. You know you’re going to feel it. And after reading this review of my experiment, you’ll also feel why this time, the rippling effects of this tech tsunami leave nowhere to...

Success and Leadership

Does Leadership Style Matter in Tough Times?

Rick AndradeSuccess and Leadership

As another year comes to an end, we find ourselves as a nation in a bedeviling quagmire economically heading into 2023. To date, as both Consumer & CEO Confidence measured by the Conference Board continue to fall the US is likely to be already in a recession, or headed into...

Success and Leadership

How to Make Better Decisions in Tough Times

Rick AndradeSuccess and Leadership

IN my last article CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession (CEOWORLD magazine) only weeks ago the perennial economic prognosticators had the U.S. economy headed for tough times as soon as this fall and into 2023. Why? As the Federal Reserve Bank raises short term interest rates to stem inflation,...

CEO Agenda

CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession

Rick AndradeCEO Agenda

“Fear is the mind killer,” wrote best-selling author Frank Herbert in his notoriously popular sci-fi novel Dune. You must not let fear overcome your senses or you will fail to respond to rational thought he portended. It’s important to anticipate, be prepared and have a plan. So, when darkening economic...

Success and Leadership

It’s a Tale of Two Markets; The Solution to Sourcing from Asia

Rick AndradeSuccess and Leadership

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” But no matter where in the Dickens your business profits fall on that spectrum these days, we can all agree we indeed live in challenging times, especially if you’re an off-shore manufacturer. For the last few decades or...

CEO Advisory

It’s 2022… If it’s not recyclable, why does it exist?

Rick AndradeCEO Advisory

Later in life but before he died at age 87 famed French explorer, naturalist, and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, a man not known to mix metaphors in public once said, “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” He died twenty-five years...

CEO Insights

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a few extra Elves

Rick AndradeCEO Insights

It’s the single most frequent request heard around the world. Thousands of CEOs and business owners penning their deepest hopes to the big man, with the white beard, in the red suit. ‘Dear Santa, can I have more workers this year - please?‘ Living and working in a Covid pandemic...

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Rick Andrade

The Real Secret to ‘Success’

Let’s Talk China for a Minute

A.I. – It’s Altogether Insane So Now What?

Ever Heard of ChatGPT for Executives? Better Update Your Resume

Does Leadership Style Matter in Tough Times?

How to Make Better Decisions in Tough Times

CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession

It’s a Tale of Two Markets; The Solution to Sourcing from Asia

It’s 2022… If it’s not recyclable, why does it exist?

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a few extra Elves

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