Using pricing as a lever is massively powerful, yet pricing is an often overlooked and underappreciated part of diligence. Several years back, one of the large corporate finance consultancies did …
During the diligence window, savvy investors are increasingly seeking early signals on the pricing opportunity – for both valuation and value gen considerations. Gaining an understanding of the pricing opportunity …
In Commercial Due Diligence, it’s often the assumption that customer relationships are an “asset” of the business, but that’s not always the case. The reality is that for many businesses, …
Evaluating the degree to which Brand Equity lies with a target company versus with individual sales and service reps of the company should be a key exercise in Commercial Due …
As any homeowner knows, the demographics of the “trades” are changing, with an older generation of master tradespeople retiring. Consumers experience this as a lack of qualified service providers. As …
Any statement on the level of disruption that 2020 has served up risks being an understatement. In addition to reconsidering personal lives and routines, many investors have been forced to …
The origins of this GRAPH Papers® article are in recent client requests: with deal prices necessitating robust value creation plans, clients have been continually driving projects around EBITDA growth. As …
I’ve been reflecting on Mark’s recent article about how to better capitalize on brand equity – and particularly about those situations where you can exploit untapped brand equity. Mark promotes …
Direct competition between ecosystems – iOS vs. Android; Twitter (or “the X”*) vs. Instagram (Meta) – is often studied and constantly the subject of various tech press and opinion pieces. …
The impact of constantly expanding applications of AI technology has many investors nervous about traditional human-labor-based businesses – from professional and technical services to administrative clerks. The sustainability of these …
In a recent conversation with a leading technology-focused sponsor, I was asked an interesting question: if [insert hyperscale technology company name] is getting into everything, then how do I know what’s …
Private Equity investing has been described as a combination of art and science, calling on a wide range of disciplines to make good judgements. In that spirit, I wanted to …
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