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Business owners and investment bankers increasingly are working in concert on pre-sale due diligence as conditions in the market change M&A realities for sellers. With the cost of capital rising, ...

Charitable giving is one of the top financial issues Bob Bove hears about as Wealth Advisor & Certified Exit Planning Advisor at The 4:8 Group. Individuals and families want to know how to maximize ...

Businesses are seeing an advantage, more than ever, in having face-to-face, in-person meetings. After a long hiatus during the pandemic, companies are rediscovering that the need to connect and ...

The holiday season can be stressful, no matter how much you prepare. With cash flow a big concern for many businesses during this busy period, how do you manage it and how do you prepare for the ...

Ten years ago, we launched Citymark Capital as a startup real estate private equity company based in Cleveland. Our basic business model is to raise institutional investor capital (insurance companies ...

As the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings once said that he prides himself on making as few decisions in a quarter for the company as possible. Seems non sequitur. What does a CEO do if they don’t make ...

During the month of my 45th birthday, I participated in five board meetings — two nonprofits and three for Venture Capital — or Private Equity-backed tech companies. I got an early start in board work ...

Companies often work with multiple vendors to supply their office products, manage their IT, provide software or service their printers. When that’s the case, there’s a lot that can go overlooked.

Chat GPT and other AI exploded onto the world stage almost overnight. Those of us who grew up watching Terminator instantly felt that pang of fear about AI becoming sentient and taking over.

An organization is only as good as its people. At no time is that truer than during an M&A integration. Integrating the workforces of two companies can be complex. Undermanaging this critical piece ...