After securing a second round of funding from the President’s Community Fund, the next challenge began: obtaining approval from Imperial College’s Estate and Property Board. We learned during our first round of funding that this process could take months, and that progress could easily stall if even one stakeholder became a bottleneck. This second round […]
Tag: Operational Efficiency
For years, private equity firms treated the middle market, firms with $50 to $500 million in revenue, as a goldmine. Smaller, family-owned businesses were easier to understand, had less competition from mega-funds, and required relatively simple operational changes to generate outsized returns. It seemed like an ideal formula. Then reality hit. Middle-market PE deals are […]
In the digital age, every product runs on data. Whether it’s a simple subscription form or a complex real-time analytics engine, data flows into and out of digital products constantly. At the heart of this dynamic is a simple idea that every product leader should understand: the relationship between data input (what goes into the […]