The First 90 Days After Acquiring a Business
A post-close playbook for the period that decides whether value gets created or quietly destroyed. Most people assume the first 90 days after a deal closes are about making changes. The best operators know it is mostly the opposite. The early period is won by how much you protect, not …
The Silent Revolution: Embracing Agentic AI and Digital Workers
The End of the Chatbot Era By early 2026 the way we interact with technology has fundamentally transformed because we have moved past the era of simple assistants. For years we relied on tools that were reactive and required a specific prompt for every single action. Today we are witnessing …
The Evolving Landscape of Senior Home Care
Introduction The senior home care sector seems to be at a critical juncture, marked by significant demographic shifts and evolving healthcare dynamics. With a rise in life expectancy and a consequential surge in the elderly population, the demand for high-quality senior home care services has become increasingly pivotal. My …
Lessons from a search fund
I have been running a lower mid-market investor backed business acquisition firm (search fund for those in the know how). Barring a successful close of a couple of pending deals through intermediaries (investment bankers and business brokers), I’m inclined to moving on towards other endeavors. This post is a collection …
Inorganic Growth
Let’s talk about John. John was the CEO of a media company – his company had approximately 8,000 stores, operated in the US, Europe, Latin America, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Asia, and employed 58,561 people. Everything was going great – people could not get enough of John’s company’s services and …
Growing Organically
Thanks to near commoditization of B2C and B2B business services through millions of apps and applications, ‘Growth’ has become a cliché yet important word. Welcome to the glory days of Growth-Hacker, Growth-Marketer …. Growth-Everything! What does this mean from a product perspective? If you are an early stage company with …
Building your startup team
Building your initial core team is one of the most crucial initial steps for a startup. Products change, ideas change, markets (and customers change), but your team is constant. So allocate a lot of your time to hire the best possible team. Reality of startup hiring 1. Do hire T-shaped people instead of …