How to Avoid Product Pessimism + Build a Better Sales Pitch (With Special Guest April Dunford)
Product positioning expert April Dunford joins Operating Partner Paul Stansik to talk about the curse of product pessimism (and how to fix it), why most software companies struggle to create a winning...
2 Maj 202457min
Big Band Software
Ryan Milligan dives deeper into our investment in Big Band Software, joined by Big Band founders Kevin McArdle (CEO), Chris Reedy (Head of Acquisitions), and Jason Heath (COO). Throughout the discussi...
18 Apr 202439min
Getting Real About Value Creation in PE
"Value Creation" - It's one of the most over-used terms in private equity today. What does value creation mean? What's wrong with how investors talk about their value creation approach? And how does P...
4 Apr 20241h 14min
The View From Europe with Flex Capital
We welcome back our friends Christoph and Peter from FLEX Capital in Berlin, Germany. Our conversation covers everything you would expect . . . how is the tech market holding up in Europe, how is deal...
8 Mars 202459min
Mastering Business Storytelling: Strategies for Effective Communication in Private Equity
Jim welcomes the CEO of Master Storytelling and former host of Planet Money, the always-entertaining Adam Davidson. We explore the importance of crafting a compelling and memorable narrative for compa...
14 Feb 20241h 21min
Revolutionizing Investment Strategies: Harnessing Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh
Jim talks Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh, founder of Proactive Logic Consulting. Jon and his team provide fractional CTO, cloud architecture, tech modernization, and process automation services. Jo...
25 Jan 20241h 5min
The Incredible i Episode
Jim talks with IBM Champion and the Incredible i Show host, Peg Tuttle. IBM's Power Systems platform running the IBM i operating system powers some of the most significant applications in the world....
18 Jan 202450min
AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption
Jim talks with Stanford's Dr. Mohammad Rasouli about AI's pending disruption in Private Equity. He is an ex-McKinsey consultant from the Bay Area and the New York offices managing AI activation proje...
18 Dec 20231h 4min
