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THE CORUM PHILOSOPHY

"Corum's founders are former software and IT CEO's. In addition to working with hundreds of software and IT firms worldwide, many of us have sold our own companies. Thus, we fully understand that an M&A transaction may well be the most important financial event in your life. Doing it right requires meticulous preparation, proper positioning, extensive research, aggressive follow through, patient relationship building, in-depth valuation, professional negotiation, integrity, teamwork and tenacity. Those are the qualities that create a successful transaction, and those are the qualities we bring to a relationship with our clients."

From the beginning, we knew we needed a lot more than just good intentions, good ethics and hard work to become the best in our field. We knew we needed the most experienced people, a strong team process, and world class technology to create a business model of significant value to our clients. Our systems and process, proprietary buyer profiles and meticulous recording of client activity, are by far the most advanced in the industry. They are critical to our high level, IT world business relationships, impeccable research, unquestioned credibility in valuations, deep experience in strategic positioning, and superior negotiation skills we offer our clients. To give our clients an edge, we became the world's leading educator, publisher and researcher on software and IT M&A.

It's simple, if a buyer doesn't know and trust your representative, it's difficult to get their attention, let alone a good offer. And it's a lot easier if you have supplied research to the buyers, have educated them at one of your conferences, or invited them be in one of over 200 forums you have co-sponsored or conducted in the past decade. This alone would make us successful, however, we went one step further to add another element no one else has matched, a worldwide network - our global reach.

From the beginning, we knew we needed a lot more than just good intentions, good ethics and hard work to become the best in our field. We knew we needed the most experienced people, a strong team process and world class technology to create a business model of significant value to our clients.