Time for new beginnings

The new year is upon us and it’s the traditional time for new beginnings. I’m involved in one here in Central Oregon where the nascent tech community is trying to get organized and, I assume by acclimation, I was asked to be the treasurer of our new group. I guess they figured since M&A guys have to deal with financials I could balance a checkbook...click on title link to read more.

Posted by WilliamMontgomery, Senior Vice President on 22 January 2009

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A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street

A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over. I just came across a very interesting article from Bloomberg which discussed the collapse of traditional investments banks and the emergence of highly niche and more focused boutique M&A firms as leaders in the field...click on title link to read more.

Posted by DangNguyen, Financial Analyst on 21 January 2009

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Technology will eventually supplant paper

I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If I remember it was about that time the Chicago Tribune declared bankruptcy...click on title link to read more.

Posted by WilliamMontgomery, Senior Vice President on 20 January 2009

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2009 Software/IT M&A Review and Forecast

Corum Group presented its annual year-end webinar this past Thursday, Jan. 15. The event, “2009 Software/IT M&A Review and Forecast: Doing Deals in a Depression” was widely attended by hundreds of software executives across the globe. Topics covered included...click on title link to read more.

Posted by JessicaEastman, Marketing Coordinator on 19 January 2009

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Bad news is in the eye of the beholder

I was talking to a prospect this morning who was enthusiastically telling me about his software. It sounded good. He’s a great salesman and I love to dig into software, but what he was telling me wasn’t that helpful. Only in rare instances do we need or want to know much about the inner working and hidden mechanisms of the software our clients sell...click the title link to read more.

Posted by WilliamMontgomery, Senior Vice President on 21 August 2008

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