Financing – M&A
Leveraging Corporate Real Estate
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Most corporations of any size and scale have large investments in the land and facilities necessary for the successful operation of their business. While making corporate investments into real estate assets may seem to be a reasonable strategy at first glance, they are rarely investment or capital driven ...
Positioning Your Business for Sale
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While the M&A space is very frothy with transactional volumes at record levels and premium valuations abounding, the risk associated with getting deals done might just also be at an all time high. Ideally selling a business should really be about taking what the CEO believes is the ...
Seller Considerations
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Let me begin with the disclaimer that there are many different types of exit strategies and many different reasons for exit. That being said, in the text that follows we will only focus on the entrepreneur who sells the business and stays on in an executive capacity for ...
Interview with Marty Secada
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth When it comes to the business of business few decisions are as pivotal as those surrounding capital formation issues. Understanding when to seek capital, where to look for funding, how to structure the deal and other such decisions are at a minimum complex, and if made incorrectly problematic if not disasterous. ...
Why Angel Investors Might Not Be For You
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth There is hardly a week that passes where I don’t receive numerous inquiries about using “Angel” investors to finance early stage companies. I entered the phrase “Angel Investor” into Google and received almost 6 million returned searches comprised of everything ranging from individual investors to various groups, clubs and syndicates purportedly ...
Venture Capital Prefers US Market
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Venture Capital firms talk a good game when it comes to internationally diversifying their portfolio, but how aggressively do they really seek offshore investment opportunities? According to a recent study published Deloitte & Touche and the National Venture Capital Association apparently not very often. It seems that VCs ...
Private Equity vs. Venture Capital
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Based upon numerous requests from N2growth Blog readers and subscribers I will be publishing my advice and opinions in answer to your questions each Monday in a new series creatively named: “Myatt on Mondays“. Any questions related to the topic of business in general (Branding, Finance, Leadership, Talent ...
The Impact of Globalization on Business
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have traveled to more than 22 countries and have had the opportunity to transact business in various parts of Asia, the Middle East, Canada, Central and Latin America, Russia and former Eastern Block countries, India, and the European Community. Conducting business on a global basis has always ...
The Typical Approach to Capital Formation is often the Wrong Approach
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth The architecture of your corporate capital formation strategy should be engineered by design and should not be something that evolves by default over time. However all too common is the enterprise that organizes itself improperly out of the gate by making the wrong choice of entity, issuing the wrong ...