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...

A New BOSS Comes to Town

Hello, We have all had a new boss in our life. This is an announcement concerning a different sort of BOSS. We here at Semaphore are excited to let you know more about our Business Operations/Strategy Service and the addition of David Friend, M.D., MBA as part of our...

Semaphore’s Annual PE Industry Confidence Survey results

Is 2011 a Wasteland or Playground? It seems my industry colleagues have continued to be wrongly optimistic about their personal income against a backdrop of continued and decided lack of confidence in the economy and their national governments. That appears to be the...

See Ya Cris

Cris Miller is getting ready to move on to the next chapter of his life – retirement. Before he leaves behind Technology Diligence, difficult markets, anxious GPs and the usual headaches of deal making (and breaking) to discover new art galleries, photography...

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...