Can Unicorns Hurt Buyouts?
Devin and Jim talk about Unicorns -- not the mythical horse with a horn, but rather the club of billion-dollar-plus tech companies. How is this market different than the late 90s? How do Unicorns affe...
26 Apr 201650min
Board Meetings -- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Devin 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 mem...
19 Apr 20161h 4min
It's a LOG way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll
Alan and Jim spend some time talking about tracking events and errors in application software logs. Most companies are at least monitoring their web logs and database error logs these days -- but w...
15 Apr 201648min
March Madness 2016 -- Elite Eight
It's our annual March Madness show. Hosted by two guys that don't know a THING about college basketball -- so our March Madness is all about Private Equity. This year we are starting with the Elite...
4 Apr 201652min
Most Common Technology Challenges that we find when we acquire a founder-owned technology company
Jim and Alan spend some quality time talking about the most common technology challenges that we uncover when we acquire a founder owned technology company. This is not a criticism of how these compan...
24 Mars 201652min
How PE Hires Management Teams
Devin sits down with Chris Morgan, the founder of Lantern Partners, an executive search firm focused on hiring C-Suite executives at PE-backed companies. We cover how to get in the candidate flow, wha...
18 Mars 20161h
Shiny New Toy Syndrome -- And what the Founder can do about it.
Alan and Jim spend some quality time talking about the Shiny New Toy problem (SNTS) in software development. The tendency for software teams to pin their hopes and dreams on leading edge technology ...
11 Mars 201648min
Everything a CEO Wants to Know About Technical Debt
Jim and Alan spend a fast hour talking about technical debt. It's everything that a CEO/CFO/COO or Founder needs to know about technical debt -- and how to start paying it down. What causes techni...
4 Mars 201648min
