Your Story: Sabre Compliance Services, Inc.

Your name: David Clinton III
Name of your business: Sabre Compliance Services, Inc.
Your Background: The entrepreneur son of an entrepreneur; I’ve been business-minded since about age 14
Your chief characteristic: An obsession with creating business operations systems and improving the efficiency of those already existing
Your regular reads: Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Fortune, the Bible
Clients, customers, and constituents: Real Estate Developers and others who have or need large quantities of LLCs, but don’t want to deal personally with keeping them compliant with multi-state laws and requirements. Sabre began by catering specifically to Sponsors of Tenant-In-Common real estate investments, who require multiple Single Purpose Entities to be Formed and Maintained.
How long have you been in business? Sabre has been operating since 2005.
Where do you do business? We serve customers across the U.S.
Your concrete inspiration: My father always inspired me to work smarter AND harder to get ahead.
Your big dreams: To use entrepreneurial innovation for more than just making money, but for coming alongside businesses and helping them work as vehicles for good. Toward this end, I’m excited about my new position with the Foundation for Christian Stewardship, an organization committed to principled financial giving.
Your first success: Probably running a successful vending business out of my college dorm hall tripling my profits until I got shut down for competing with the school’s vending contract!
The status of your business: Have annually maintained over 3000 legal entities to date.
The future of your business: We are in the process of taking our services more fully online to make the same streamlined services we currently offer more accessible to distinct markets.
Your greatest challenge in business: Having a strong, “driver” personality, delegation, and trusting my employees has been very difficult to learn.  Once I learned that I hired people for a reason, my life became much easier.  I found I was often the very bottleneck of the systems I had developed.
Business pet peeve: Miscommunication!  I tend to think that 95% of the world’s problems can be rooted in basic misunderstandings. If we take the time to communicate I think it’s worth it.  We try very hard to keep it this way at Sabre, and have found that it ends up saving time and relationships in the long run.
Your favorite entrepreneurs, pioneers, mavericks, artists, and heros from real life and history: Steve Jobs, Sun Tzao, Guy Kawasaki, Joel Spolsky, Tony Hsieh, Markus Frind
The greatest rewards of your entrepreneurship: Seeing the fruit of my labor manifest itself in good jobs for good people. Having fun while working: who would have thought?!
Your idea of happiness in business: Having employees that love their jobs, while continually enjoying a profit.
Your present state of mind: Content having created a business that is helping to fix the problem it came to fix. Looking for further businesses and customers that can profit by the services we provide.
Your business advice: I’ve created many businesses; the only one that worked was the one for which I wrote a business plan! Failing to plan is planning to fail…
Your favorite motto: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
Your favorite business book: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Your one sentence business story: While working for a securities firm, I realized the need for TIC Sponsors to arrange corporate compliance solutions for their investors and so created Sabre to fill it, and it fit like a glove.

Sabre Compliance Services, Inc.
http://www.sabrecomplianceservices.com/
Main: (888) 444-1031