M&A Without Buying the Company

Posted by on Apr 21, 2011 in Financing - M&A, Operations & Strategy | 3 Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook. The truth is that acquisitions aren’t just ...

Capital vs. Influence

Posted by on Apr 1, 2011 in Financing - M&A, Leadership | 2 Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth  I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience or influence. Impulsivity has a huge cost when ...

Growth by Partnering

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If corporate growth is what you seek, but you lack the patience to endure the slow pace of organic growth, and don’t have the capital necessary to finance an acquisition binge, then you might want to consider the many benefits associated with partnering.  While the concept of creating a strategic partnership is familiar to many, ...

My Philosophy on Valuations

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While my philosophy on valuations hasn’t changed in years, my feeling as to their importance has. Valuations are always a dicey proposition, but even more so given today’s business climate. I can’t think of a time in recent history where having third party validation for your valuation metrics has been ...

Term Sheet Generator

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009 in Financing - M&A | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Term Sheets are a foundational element in justifying your valuation logic. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to view some absolutely brilliant term sheets, and regrettably, I’ve also reviewed more than my fair share of laughable terms sheets. Guy Kawasaki turned me on to this term sheet ...

Blogging for M&A

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I think it’s fair to say that Blogging for M&A has arrived when two banks merging spawns a blog. I saw a tweet (code for twitter post) from Dan Schawbel about the new Wells Fargo - Wachovia Blog which is dedicated to topics directly related to the Wells Fargo / Wachovia ...

The Next Collapse…

Posted by on Dec 3, 2008 in Financing - M&A | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth It seems as if the more layers of the onion we peel back on the chaos in the capital markets the worse the news seems to be. I have long been a believer in the axiom ”where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” and trust me when I tell you that the fire ...

Deal Transparency

Posted by on Oct 3, 2008 in Financing - M&A | One Comment

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If deal transparency isn’t at the forefront of your M&A strategy, you might want to stop and do a bit of thinking. In some ways the world of corporate M&A is much the same as it was 20 years ago, and in other ways the events of the last ...

Due Diligence – Not Optional…

Posted by on Aug 22, 2008 in Financing - M&A, Operations & Strategy | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as you wish it might be so, due diligence is really not an optional consideration. Have you ever made a decision based upon what you thought was a thorough understanding of all pertinent information only to find out after the fact that you didn’t know as ...

Public vs. Private

Posted by on Jul 16, 2008 in Financing - M&A | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Public vs. Private finance…The question is, which option is better, and why? Entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors have very strong opinions as to whether you’re better-off with private equity or an IPO when seeking to finance, sell, or otherwise seek investment capital for your company. In today’s post I’ll ...

Secondary Markets 101

Posted by on Mar 26, 2008 in Financing - M&A, Rants | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth With the meltdown in credit markets over the past several weeks I thought it may be insightful to look beyond the typical cries of mutual greed on the part of lenders and borrowers alike to some of the lesser known underpinnings associated with this debacle. I’m not disputing for a second that ...

Mid-Market Capital Opportunity

Posted by on Mar 14, 2008 in Financing - M&A | No Comments

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s post will focus on the analysis of mid-market capital providers, which I believe provide the most significant opportunity for companies seeking funding in today’s tight credit markets. If on one end of the spectrum you’ve recently been given the cold shoulder by a bulge bracket lender, or at ...

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