How an entrepreneur views strategic partnerships

I have the unique privilege of badging myself both a serial and a cereal entrepreneur.

Aside from a few executive roles I have held in the corporate world, I have essentially spent most of my career as an entrepreneur and made one of my more public marks as the co-founder of the first all-cereal restaurant chain – Cereality Cereal Bar & Café. That venture was initially backed by PepsiCo’s Quaker Foods division and is now owned and operated by the…