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...
Hello, Do you expect to make more personal compensation next year than this year? Feeling more confident or less confident in the President’s Economic team? Your thoughts on Newt or Mitt? Annually we ask our readers to weigh in and share their level of confidence in...
Results of Annual Semaphore PE Industry Confidence Survey It’s all about the cash. Reversing a trend, my industry colleagues seem to have the wind at their backs when it comes to their personal income and business expectations – this despite a decided lack of...
But our LPs are very happy that we don’t have summer tans. This is the fifth edition of our summer blast. OK, it should be titled “Some Sand Between Our Toes”. We’ve actually had the fortune of enjoying both a busy period and a highly efficient...
At my Thanksgiving Day table we go around the room and ask each family member (31 this year) to relate just what it is for which they are most grateful. Responses are variously funny (“my big nose so I can better enjoy the smell of that wonderful pecan and pumpkin...
The Semaphore Confidence Survey respondents are truly prescient. If America had only listened to our results last year it would have saved the American people over a Billion dollars in advertisements and political machinations in the just concluded presidential...