Case Study #33: The Acquirer Gets Acquired

Case Study #33: The Acquirer Gets Acquired

Long before the general public knew what Amazon Web Services was, and that it provided the backbone for entities ranging from Netflix to the CIA, Glenn Grant was building G2 Tech Group. G2 Tech Group was leading the industry in migrating services to the cloud, where...
Anxiety before Closing is Normal

Anxiety before Closing is Normal

One of our brokers was recently asked to be part of a panel at a conference. The panel topic was about experiences in selling a business and in preparatory slides she saw a focus on the stress, emotion, and anxiety that came with a business sale. Being a rather...
Cautionary Tale #6: Accounting Woes

Cautionary Tale #6: Accounting Woes

Whenever we discuss commonalities in successful transactions, inevitably “clean books” will be one of the first three things mentioned. Numbers don’t just matter for your valuation, or for tax purposes, or just to track where the money has gone: without clean books, a...
Apex Success Stories #3: Just Do the Work

Apex Success Stories #3: Just Do the Work

Sometimes we see that new owners do better than the former ones not because they have any more skills, but simply because they do work that the former owners refused to do. This isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, difficult, uphill work. Often it’s the simplest of...