How do you select a PE buyer? What questions should you ask prospective buyers? What's negotiable and what's not? And all kinds of useful tips and tricks.
Read MoreDevin and Jim sit down with NextGen Growth Partners founder Brian O'Connor to discuss search funds, pledge funds, traditional funds and all the similarities and differences among them.
Read MoreDevin welcomes back Cass and Ben for a mad-cap review of all the confusing terms and phrases thrown around the typical private equity shop.
Read MoreDevin and Jim break down the what, how, why and when of the often maligned, but rarely explained, process of PE funds taking money out of companies before the exit.
Read MoreDevin and Jim go deep on their process for developing investment theses. They cover: where to start, tools to hone your thesis, how to fight confirmation bias, when to give up and when to stick with it.
Read MoreIf we change out every "board" (no pun intended) in our companies over our ownership period -- is it the same company/ship when we exit?
Read MoreLimited Partner, John McCarthy, is back for another book club episode. This time we talk about Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow -- and how it applies to private equity. Try listening to this episode with your System 2 thinking cap on.
Read MoreLimited Partner Mike McClure sits down for a discussion about the other side of the fundraising table. We cover: the first meeting, following up and what can set you apart from all the other GPs in the market.
Read MoreThe latest episode in our Fundraising series. We spend an hour talking with John Cosgrove from Beartooth Advisors - the team that worked as our agents on the ParkerGale fund.
Read MoreJim and Devin spend an hour talking with Jay Bartlett and Scott Orleck from Parthenon-EY. They share their experiences tackling questions working with us around market sizing, growth rates, cyclicality, and the competitive landscape.
Read MoreThis episode starts off where we left our intrepid heroes just after their first close in September, 2015. Come have a listen as we talk about our decision to hire a placement agent and our marathon of trips in late winter/early spring in pursuit of capital.
Read MoreDevin and Jim spend an hour talking about the strategy and tactics of raising ParkerGale's first fund. This episode covers the pre-launch up to the fund's first close.
Read MoreOur exhaustive review of the fundraising process for ParkerGale's first fund. We cover the strategy for launching the fund as well as the tactics we used to raise $240 million.
Read MoreAfter three years working with the ParkerGale team at our old firm and spending two years getting my MBA, I decided to re-join the team. Here is why.
Read MoreWe all know there are tons of Private Equity funds. So what are the ways they try to stand out from the crowd? We cover the four biggies: Focus, Size, Sourcing and Team.
Read MoreDevin and Jim discuss the seven deadly sins of private equity -- sins that will turn a good deal into a bad deal.
Read MoreDevin interviews podcast darling Kevin Fitzgerald on his return to private equity after two years at Harvard Business School.
Read MoreDevin sits down with Dave Will, the founder of Peach New Media,a software company he founded, bootstrapped and recently sold to AccelKKR.
Read MoreDevin and Jim talk about Unicorns -- not the mythical horse witha horn, but rather the club of billion-dollar-plus tech companies. How is this market different than the late 90s? How do Unicorns affect buyouts and smaller companies, both positively and negatively?
Read MoreDevin and Jim welcome their partner Kristina to her first podcast where they talk about how to run a good board meeting. Who to invite, what to cover, what to avoid and how to manage your PE board members.
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