By Katie Burns
May 21 2018
Managing Director, Providence Equity
Jul 23 2019
This is a guest article from Founders Advisors Director Chris Weingartner. We hope you enjoy it! Across all the deals we’ve done, there is likely no larger deterrent to both a premium valuation and a smooth closing than a company that doesn’t have clean financials. We certainly can be empathetic for companies that have not […]
Jul 05 2019
Many SaaS companies go through due diligence in a less-than-ideal state. That’s a lot less stressful when you know what that means. A while back I wrote about what to expect in SaaS due diligence and provided an interactive institutional readiness report cardto help you prepare, but today I want to address the consequences of being unprepared […]
Sep 19 2018
The reason for my recurring love of the institutional readiness topic is that SaaS companies are often overly confident that their perspective on their performance is enough to drive a high valuation. The truth is the opposite. Many SaaS companies aren’t prepared for institutional capital or strategic acquisition. Their lack of institutional readiness will cost them […]
