Business Owners How to Reduce Owner Dependence Before a Sale CEOs: What would happen if you went on vacation for a month and left your business to run itself? If…
Business Owners What Does an M&A Advisor Charge? Investor Brent Beshore, founder and CEO of adventur.es, a Midwestern-based permanent equity firm, recently published a book called “The Messy…
Advisors 2018: Year In Review for the Axial Platform 2018 was full of exciting developments on the Axial platform. We shipped over 450 updates to the site, evolving the…
Business Owners As Search Fund Popularity Rises, Alternative Models Emerge Today, the number of active search funds is at an all-time high, according to Stanford’s 2018 Search Fund Study. A…
Business Owners 6 Tips for Transitioning From a Founding CEO For lower to middle market private equity funds, a key value creation lever can be the successful, collaborative transition of…
Business Owners 4 Takeaways From Taking Over a Family Business Himmat Singh took over as CEO of Circle of Life Home Care, a home care agency specializing in serving Native…
Advisors 700+ Meetings in One Day: Axial Concord 2018 NYC More than 150 deal professionals came together last week for Axial Concord New York 2018. This was our fifth flagship…
Business Owners One Way to Ease Tensions Between Operating Partners and CEOs Recently, many private equity firms have been adopting buy-and-build strategies to improve returns. Often, this strategy entails buying a platform…
Buyers Growing 3X in 3 Years: How Dane Manufacturing Hit Their BHAG (Part 1) In July 2015, Dane Manufacturing CEO and president Troy Berg and COO Mike Lisle set an audacious goal of growing…