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 …