Let’s say you are an investor and one of your portfolio companies is struggling to hit their objectives. Do you proactively recommend one of your operating partners to your CEO? Do you wait for them to ask for help? Now let’s imagine your are the CEO and...
There are the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining., depression, and acceptance. Similarly, many middle market PE investors, too, go through predictable stages with their portfolio. There’s the excitement from closing the deal, the focus from enacting the...
They are called operating partners, value creators or growth leads. Whatever their name, middle market private equity firms know they need to provide operating help to their investments. Over the past six months we’ve spoken with over 50 middle market PE investors....
I started my career in professional services as a lawyer in a large law firm in New York. In those early years, I was a learner trying to figure out how to provide legal services. A partner would magically have a client and push down the execution of that work to...
I once worked for a CEO who would say that the first $20M in revenue that a startup generated was easy compared to the challenges of getting to $200M. His observation was that the skills, procedures and resources needed to grow to the next plateau are very different...
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Stage18, the innovative growth acceleration platform designed for mid-market companies. Stage18 delivers high-impact solutions to mid-market private equity investors and mid-sized companies that need help growing. Our...
