M&A

Buying and selling companies

Jun 17, 2025

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10 min read

The Exit-Ready Org

What private equity sponsors are actually looking for, and how to avoid killing deal momentum before it starts.

CJ Gustafson

All Stock Deals: Your Company, As Currency

Jun 1, 2025

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11 min read

All Stock Deals: Your Company, As Currency

6/1/25 Benchmarks for Operators

CJ Gustafson

Feb 11, 2025

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6 min read

Build vs. Buy Tools

Lessons from the Nightmare of Homegrown Tools

CJ Gustafson

"If less than half of your deals fail, you're probably not taking enough risk"

Sep 24, 2024

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8 min read

"If less than half of your deals fail, you're probably not taking enough risk"

Is corporate M&A like drafting a 1st round QB?

CJ Gustafson

Jul 7, 2024

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8 min read

Avoiding Buyer's Remorse

7/7/24 Benchmarks for Operators

CJ Gustafson

Jun 27, 2024

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12 min read

Negotiating the Working Capital Peg

Part 4 in our month long series on Tech M&A

CJ Gustafson

Jun 20, 2024

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10 min read

Your Complete Guide to Earnouts

June's four part series on M&A negotiations at tech startups

CJ Gustafson

Your Complete Guide to Liquidation Preferences

Jun 6, 2024

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11 min read

Your Complete Guide to Liquidation Preferences

June's four part series on M&A negotiations at tech startups

CJ Gustafson

Apr 21, 2024

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10 min read

Firewalls & Fire Sales

4/21/24 Benchmarks for Operators.

CJ Gustafson

Oct 26, 2023

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26 min read

A Crash Course in M&A

Interviewing Anand Sanwal, Founder and CEO of CB Insights

CJ Gustafson

Jan 3, 2023

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8 min read

M&A Strategies

How to evaluate your acquisition landscape

CJ Gustafson

Dec 13, 2022

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8 min read

Understanding Take Private Transactions

And trends to identify them before they go down

CJ Gustafson

Aug 16, 2022

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8 min read

Ways to buy a business

Asset deals vs Stock deals - in plain English

CJ Gustafson

M&A

The Exit-Ready Org

All Stock Deals: Your Company, As Currency

Build vs. Buy Tools

"If less than half of your deals fail, you're probably not taking enough risk"

Avoiding Buyer's Remorse

Negotiating the Working Capital Peg

Your Complete Guide to Earnouts

Your Complete Guide to Liquidation Preferences

Firewalls & Fire Sales

A Crash Course in M&A

M&A Strategies

Understanding Take Private Transactions

Ways to buy a business

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