Why SMBs are the Next Growth Opportunity for Marketing Automation
Over the past ten years, marketing and ad tech has been an exciting sector to watch. We have seen a steady stream of innovation and market dynamics, and the sector has been a powerful growth enabler...
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The Benefits and Challenges of Platform-as-a-Service
PaaS, or Platform as a Service, is a set of cloud-based technologies that allow Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to be developed and hosted on a high-level programming platform. It differs...
View ArticleTell Me About Your “Next Gen”
Do Fusion, Unity and Next Gen get the job done? “An architect’s first work is apt to be spare and clean. … The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that...
View ArticleThe Promise (and Challenges) of Data Driven Talent Management
For two decades now I’ve been observing the evolution of HR technology. First as an investment banker, then as an investor, an operator, and finally as an investment banker again. As anyone in the...
View Article4 Factors That Every Software Investor Needs Their CDD Advisors To Address
While commercial due diligence (CDD) is as established and professionalized as private equity investing, investors’ recent run in the tech sector warrants a closer look at the particularities of CDD on...
View ArticleWhy an Integrated Approach to Diligence Gives Software Investors an Edge
Our last article discussed some of the peculiarities of the software sector, and how they impact the priorities of commercial diligence on a software company vs. a target in a different space. In prior...
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The Benefits and Challenges of Platform-as-a-Service
PaaS, or Platform as a Service, is a set of cloud-based technologies that allow Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to be developed and hosted on a high-level programming platform. It differs...
View ArticleTell Me About Your “Next Gen”
Do Fusion, Unity and Next Gen get the job done? “An architect’s first work is apt to be spare and clean. … The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that...
View ArticleThe Promise (and Challenges) of Data Driven Talent Management
For two decades now I’ve been observing the evolution of HR technology. First as an investment banker, then as an investor, an operator, and finally as an investment banker again. As anyone in the...
View Article4 Factors That Every Software Investor Needs Their CDD Advisers To Address
While commercial due diligence (CDD) is as established and professionalized as private equity investing, investors’ recent run in the tech sector warrants a closer look at the particularities of CDD on...
View ArticleWhy an Integrated Approach to Diligence Gives Software Investors an Edge
Our last article discussed some of the peculiarities of the software sector, and how they impact the priorities of commercial diligence on a software company vs. a target in a different space. In prior...
View Article3 Reasons Cybersecurity Buyouts Are On the Rise
Attracting over $12B in venture capital funding and 10 times that amount in various high-profile buyouts and PIPE deals over the five years leading up to 2017, it is no secret that cybersecurity...
View Article5 Best Practices That Boost Development Effectiveness, Part I
The Non-Technical Practices What can my organization do to improve its development productivity? That question is on the mind of many a manager when faced with the aggressive timelines borne of a...
View Article5 Best Practices That Boost Development Effectiveness, Part II
The Technical Practices In Part I, we covered two non-technical practices that not only bring immediate and lasting improvements to software development effectiveness, but will also provide leverage to...
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The Strategic Buyer as an Endangered Species
About a year ago, we published an article titled “Why Tech Companies are Favoring Private Equity Over IPOs” in which we described the shift from public to private markets as a source of liquidity for...
View ArticleHow Loosely Coupled Architectures are Helping the Modernization of Legacy...
Over the course of the past 18 months, we have been involved in no fewer than a dozen engagements where large, mostly monolithic applications needed to be re-architected, moved to the cloud, and...
View ArticleProcess Matters: How Underlying Productivity Issues Can Derail Tech Companies
When considering an investment in a software company, what are the most important factors to weigh? Investors, VC and PE alike, tend to prioritize analysis of multiples and revenue projections that...
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The Intel “Meltdown” and Its Unintended Consequences
Meltdown and Spectre will wreak havoc for years to come Last week, in between presidential tweets about nuclear buttons and record cold across the country, the tech industry quietly absorbed what could...
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Worried About Meltdown and Spectre? You Should Be!
An in-depth look at these vulnerabilities and how they affect you Recently, several parallel groups of researchers announced the discovery of two vulnerabilities in modern CPUs from Intel, AMD, and...
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How to Be Prepared for Technical Due Diligence: What to Anticipate and How to...
There comes a time in the life of many software companies for a substantial raise of capital or change of ownership, typically without much advance notice given to the R&D organization. Obviously,...
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