Board Knowledge and Perspective

I field calls from GPs and CEOs all the time. Invariably they are doing a deal, whether investment or acquisition, and need either verification that the technology and/or markets targeted are real or a product exists and someone wishes to buy it in the future. Less...

Hogs-Head of Marketing had by all

Marketing Due Diligence Last Thursday there was a Happening…Monsters of Pork… at Petit Robert as part of a spectacular program of market oriented seminars and symposia under the brand Future M. The pork party was a real experience. I had been to the location before...

Due Diligence Often Discovers Discrepancies

Our partner and colleague Jon Klein of The Topline Strategy Group explores one very public example. Earlier last month, Watson, a computer built by IBM, faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the two greatest Jeopardy players of all time and trounced them. Or...

The Real Jeopardy Story

Blog 2 of 3 in the Due Diligence Often Discovers Discrepancies series. As I said in my previous Watson blog earlier this week, Watson, a computer built by IBM, faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the two greatest Jeopardy players of all time and trounced...

Does Steve Jobs Matter (to Apple Shareholders)?

Next week, Apple will announce its first earnings since Steve Jobs stepped down from his role as CEO of Apple on January 15, 2011 due to health reasons. So far, the market has taken a wait and see attitude as to what it means for the company. After a relentless rise...

Semaphore Forms Joint Venture with Topline Strategy

As you may have read in our last S4 Reporter, Cris Miller, the founding director of our Technology Due Diligence Practice retired last Friday September 30th. With Cris’ departure, we decided to form a Joint Venture with Topline Strategy, a Boston-based provider of...