ESOPs – Issues to Consider for Owners

The WSJ ran an interesting piece this week, on the issues surrounding employee stock-ownership plans. I’ve extracted some points worth considering from the article and added some issues from my own experience. Background As of 2011 approximately 10,900 ESOPs...
Post Acquisition Integration – the culture problem

Post Acquisition Integration – the culture problem

The success of an acquisition is rarely down to the price you pay according to the research. First the research:  Cass Business School, concluded from detailed research covering 12,339 deals including 2917 acquisitions of distressed companies from 1984 to 2008  that...

Corum’s Latest Software Valuations

Corum claim to be the world’s leading seller of private software, IT and related companies. They produce fascinating summaries of the valuation ratios of public software companies. Their review of 2012 is worth revisiting to calibrate the big picture of this...

The Inbound Marketing Myth

We are told it’s all about generating content. Quality, remarkable content that will be picked up by the search engines and drive high quality prospects to your site. These prospects will fill in forms or call you leading to great deals being closed. Simple...