“How have your funds performed over time? Are your funds typically top quartile? How does your firm perform on types of investments like this company you’re recruiting me to work at? Can you walk me through your original investment thesis when you bought this platform company? Is the company performing to expectation? Is there incentive equity for key executives working at the firm? How does that incentive equity work under your various exit scenarios? Are there opportunities for me to invest? Beyond”
― The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity
― The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity
“Strategy usually begins with an assessment of your industry. Your choice of strategic style should begin there as well. Although many industry factors will play into the strategy you actually formulate, you can narrow down your options by considering just two critical factors: predictability (How far into the future and how accurately can you confidently forecast demand, corporate performance, competitive dynamics, and market expectations?) and malleability (To what extent can you or your competitors influence those factors?).”
― HBR's 10 Must Reads for CEOs (with bonus article "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns)
― HBR's 10 Must Reads for CEOs (with bonus article "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns)
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