Buyers Growing 3X in 3 Years: How Dane Manufacturing Hit Their BHAG (Part 1) In July 2015, Dane Manufacturing CEO and president Troy Berg and COO Mike Lisle set an audacious goal of growing…
Buyers Growing 3X in 3 Years (Part 2): Outbid at the 11th Hour In 2015, Dane Manufacturing CEO and president Troy Berg and COO Mike Lisle set the audacious goal of growing the…
Buyers Growing 3X in 3 Years (Part 3): Bankruptcy and a Bank Backout In 2015, Dane Manufacturing CEO and president Troy Berg and COO Mike Lisle set the audacious goal of growing the…
Buyers Finding the Right Acquirer for an Employee-Owned Business In 1997, seven frustrated toolmakers banded together to launch Rapid Production Tooling, an injection mold tooling company based in Berthoud,…
Private Equity PennSpring Finds the Right Deal Finding and winning the right deal at the right price is extremely difficult in today’s ultra competitive M&A environment. That’s…
Business Owners Behind the Deal: the CEO’s Take on Selling V-TEK to KODA During the M&A process, closing a deal may seem like a pretty clear indicator of success for both buyer and…
Business Owners Why Two Physicists Started a Hospitality Company — and Why They Decided to Sell Des O’Mahony, CEO and co-founder of hotel booking company Bookassist, was finishing a PhD. in physics in the mid-90s when…
Family Offices How a Beer Entrepreneur Found His Partner in a Family Office Before Brian O’Connell founded Denver-based Renegade Brewing in 2011, he had a good job in stats analysis at the University…
Family Offices Family Offices on Axial: Spotlight on Patoka Capital Patoka Capital is the direct investment arm of the Ragains family office based in the Louisville, KY area. The Ragains…
