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Getting Financially Savvy with Your Finance Department
On November 14, the Nashville Business Journal ran a Career & Workplace blog post by me. The takeaway is that it's expensive and probably unnecessary to hire for all the "Chief Financial Officer" skills a growing company will need, just like you probably wouldn't...
When NOT to Accept an Offer For Your Business
On November 8, Startup Southerner published an article by me about exit strategies for entrepreneurs. Take-away: Be careful about offers to buy your company. Sometimes "no deal" is the best deal, and sometimes saying this early, before you've sunk time and effort into...
FourBridges’ Leader, New Tech Point Man on a Rising Breed of Southern Entrepreneurs, Upcoming Opportunities
**This post was originally published by Southern/alpha. Interview by: Geert De LombaerdeThe leaders of Chattanooga-based investment FourBridges Capital Advisors earlier this month announced they had recruited Atlanta technology executive Doug Johns to be a senior...
The Data has Spoken: The Southeast is a Seller’s Market
**This article originally appeared in the Nashville Business Journal on Sept. 30, 2015.Dust from the recession has settled and an estimated $400 billion in private equity funds alone are chasing down businesses to buy or invest in. Nashville companies, you’re at the...
What the Recent Sale of Southern Tool Steel Tells Us About the M&A Market in the Southeast – Part 2
Frank Williamson is managing partner of FourBridges Capital Advisors— a middle-market investment bank that specializes in serving privately owned businesses in the Southeast and the company behind Investment Banking South. He has a 20-year career managing mergers,...
What the Recent Sale of Southern Tool Steel Tells Us About the M&A Market in the Southeast
The sale of Southern Tool Steel to Ryerson Holding Corp. supports several trends found in Investment Banking South’s market survey of business owners, investors and corporate advisers: Manufacturing is particularly strong in the Southeast and is an especially...
An Interview with Start It Up Radio
Our dedication to the startup community means that we've listened to our faire share of pitches from early stage companies. Some have been good, others bad. In his recent Start It Up radio interview, Frank revealed his tips for making that 10-minute presentation...
Private Equity at Work: Tennessee, Georgia Draw More Investment
The Tennessee Valley is known for its gritty factories, soaring dams, Southern hospitality and mountain views. It's not known for its hopping private equity scene. But perhaps it should be. Investors committed $7.7 billion in private equity through 53 transactions in...
Understanding Your Company’s Worth—A Step-By-Step Guide to Business Valuations
Because business owners are not immortal, every business faces one of two fates at some point: sale or closure. And every business owner—at least, every one I’ve known—prefers the former over the latter. Yet, very few of the 15,000 business owners in Greenville—much...
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