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Business Strategy
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An Exit Readiness Assessment Private Equity Deal Partners Can Underwrite
The moment an exit readiness assessment matters is not when the sell-side bankers arrive. It is eighteen to twenty-four months earlier, when the fund starts modeling…
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Sell-Side Technical Due Diligence Is a Seller’s Job, Done Before the Buyer Shows Up
By the time a buyer’s diligence team opens your codebase, the price range is mostly set. If you are the deal partner or operating partner running…
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Deal-Driven IT Strategy in Private Equity Starts With Four Decisions
If you are sitting between an LOI and a confirmatory close, the technology work in front of you is a set of decisions that change the…
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A Deal-Ready Technology Review Answers the Questions Your Investment Committee Will Ask
By the time you are inside confirmatory diligence, the technology question is no longer whether the code is good. It is whether the platform can carry…
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Engineering Team Assessment Due Diligence That Predicts Whether the Plan Ships
When a technical diligence report tells you the codebase is “modern” and the team is “strong,” you still do not know what the investment committee is…
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Private equity consulting firms charge for projects or own quarterly outcomes
A pattern operating partners will recognize: a portfolio company engages a large advisory firm to build a revenue operations playbook, and months later the deliverable is…
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An Open Source Audit for M&A Is a Bill of Materials With a Price on Each Line
When a deal partner asks me what an open source audit for M&A is supposed to produce, the honest answer is short: a list of every…
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AI agent implementations require production token cost forecasts before deployment
A portfolio company launched an AI customer-support agent in Q2 2024. The proof-of-concept cost $240 in API tokens across three weeks. Production deployment cost $14,000 in…