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Life to me is not a zero-sum game – both of us can win. My business goals are profitability, sustainability and growth through empowering the people who surround me, challenging the status quo, and relentlessly pursuing success. Personally I also push for finding my answers to life’s biggest questions. Here I share my meditations, lessons learned and musings around success in business, innovation, tech, private equity, consciousness, space-time, physics, the great outdoors and my time in Tahoe, Reno, Austin, New York,… [read more]
Recent Posts
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The Deal Sourcery Podcast is Live!
Ya’ll, I’m pumped! Late last year Matt Rooney from Coastal Partners (www.coastalpartners.co) and I had this crazy idea about launching a podcast together. There are hundreds and hundreds of us in Private Equity deal sourcing today (800+ by our last count), but we’re all stuck in our own silos at our own firms, often unable…
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M&A Lingo for CEO’s – 15 MUST-know Terms
If you own or run a private business, chances are Private Equity firms are knocking on your door. But if you aren’t prepared for the unique language of private equity and M&A, conversations will leave you lost-in-translation, or worse, left in the dust by your PE-backed competitors. To stay ahead of the game, every business…
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In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits
Amazing that looking back on my post comments about creating a Private Equity Non-Profit Fund, I also found this article from 2012. Definitely interesting: Reblogged from DealBook: When the W. K. Kellogg Foundation set aside $100 million in 2007 to invest in companies that could produce both social and financial benefits, it was considered revolutionary.…



