Reports - M&A

What happens when your first investor wants to sell?

Picture the scene: your business is enjoying hockey stick growth when your first investor rings you ...

Focus on one thing – and do it better than anyone else

Launching a startup is precarious at the best of times - but doing so during the financial crisis of...

How to build and sell two businesses for £50m inside a decade 

For a man who has, alongside his co-founder David Hague, built and sold two businesses with an aggre...

Meet the ‘transformation CEO’ leading fast-growth Sorted

Sorted is a company which has been on the up for some years now. Founded in 2010 by David Grimes ...

Why private equity can be a force for growth

It’s fair to say private equity gets a mixed press. Critics accuse them of asset-stripping whil...

Why DealCloud is the real deal

Jonathan Boyers knows a thing or two about doing deals. As well as being a multiple award winner,...

‘Rollercoaster’ journey creates £200m business in five years

Cera Care turns five this week - and co-founder Dr Ben Maruthappu is now the CEO of a business with ...

Don’t be seduced by big-name brands

Carl Wong looks back at his time running LivingLens in two halves. He co-founded the video analyt...

Startups must remember that cash is king

The videogames industry is undoubtedly a UK success story. An industry incubated in Eighties bedr...

What do you do when your best friend and business partner dies?

In January this year Andy Sawer, co-founder of Pareto Law, died after a 16-month battle with an aggr...

Don’t apologise for putting growth before profit

Manchester-based software-as-a-service company Pimberly made headlines in November after securing £...

Why? The one-word question you need to ask yourself in business

Steve Purdham and the fellow board members of software company SurfControl had no idea what to expe...

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