Morning Person Lament: The Upside of the New Down

I’m a morning person. No, not the kind you are thinking. The type that goes to bed at 2:30 or 3:00 AM. You won’t find me at a power breakfast at a fancy hotel at 6:30 AM as I’ll be making breakfast for my 12 yr old daughter Celia and then jumping,...

Should GPs support the ILPA Private Equity Principles?

I have been fielding these same questions from my GP, LP and other industry colleagues: • “What do you think about the ILPA Principles?” (soft voice) • “How do you think it will affect my business?” (worried voice) • “They don’t...

Good Fortune, Dan

I think I was subscriber number 293 – certainly somewhere under one thousand. That got me the privilege of sharing a Dim Sum meal in Boston’s Chinatown with the curly haired, lightening talking, quick-fire questioning editor of what was then known as PE Week Wire. In...

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 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...