Key Points About PE in 2024

Just some thoughts in 2024: Value Creation is Key to Success: PE aims to improve companies through strategic changes and operational enhancements, with a clear focus on profitability Operational Expertise: Beyond providing capital, PE firms offer operational insights to help companies improve and grow Revenue Growth Acceleration & GTM Optimization:  Read More >

Achieving Great Exits for PE-backed Companies

To achieve favorable exit outcomes, PE portfolio companies typically employ a variety of strategies: Disproportionate Organic Revenue Growth (based on PE Fund’s GTM Expertise & Capital-Efficient Focus): Focusing on driving disproportionate and capital growth via market expansion, new customer acquisition, expansion sales into existing customer base, and product development, to  Read More >

Supporting Add-On M&A Process in PE

In the role as a PE Operating Partner, your primary responsibilities involve not only helping the Investment Team with diligence in the process of add-on mergers and acquisitions for our anchor portfolio companies, but also ensuring the seamless integration and enhancement of these new additions (ex: GTM  team and process  Read More >

A Key GTM Metric in PE – CRC: Customer Retention Cost

Retaining customers is more cost-efficient than acquiring new ones. Once a customer is acquired, focusing on repeat business is crucial due to the higher cost of acquisition. Customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, which can be three to six times more expensive. Balancing acquisition and retention strategies is essential  Read More >

CRO – The Key Role in PE Operating & Portfolio Support Group

A lot of the traditional PE firms have great Portfolio Support teams. Many of the professionals are former CEOs.  Here is one example about a PE Operating group: “To enhance our own operational capabilities, we’ve developed relationships with over 100 senior industry executives, or Operating Partners, who act as independent  Read More >

PE Value Creation – Sales Excellence & Revenue Acceleration

Historically, Private Equity (PE) firms looked to add value to their portfolio companies in the following ways: Financial engineering Strategic initiatives Operational improvements Over the years, financial engineering was no longer as impactful on value creation as it was in the 80’s and 90’s so PE firms started adding value with  Read More >