Advisors How Investment Banker Nick MacShane Supercharged His BD Strategy Former technology entrepreneur Nick MacShane is the founder and managing partner of investment bank and corporate advisory firm Progress Partners.…
Private Equity How Impact Investor Paul Reddy Balances Social and Economic Returns Paul Reddy is a partner at Newpark Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments that deliver positive social and…
Advisors The Strange Reasons 4 M&A Deals Failed Deals fall apart, for a wide variety of reasons. It’s an unavoidable truth of M&A. The Harvard Business Review has…
Advisors 3 Reasons an M&A Advisor Is Worth the Cost A 2016 study asked CEOs who had recently sold their businesses with the help of an investment banker whether their advisor…
Lenders How This Anti-Equity Tech Company Is Funding Growth When Gordon Landies invested in OfficeWork Software, a San Francisco-based H.R. intelligence solution, he knew he wasn’t interested in financing…
Private Equity How Investor William Karol Sourced His Ideal Deal William (Bill) Karol started Koda Enterprises Group, a long-term holding company, in 1989, after running a plastic injection molding company…
Private Equity The #1 Thing Private Equity Investors Look for in a Company A recent study by Harvard Business School found that up to half of venture capitalists rely more on gut instinct…
Private Equity The #1 Differentiator in a Private Equity Partnership Business model, industry dynamics, competitive landscape, luck: all influence a company’s success. But for Monolith Software, based in Frisco, Texas,…
Why Your Business Shouldn’t Need You Many founders and business owners spend decades building their companies from the ground up. They devote every spare minute to…