Private Equity Funcast
Jim Milbery and Devin Mathews
Hosted by Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery, partners at ParkerGale Capital, a middle-market private equity group. This bi-weekly show is a lively discussion of the uses of technology to improve business operations for companies with less than $100 million in revenue.
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Sep 24, 2015 • 58min
A founder-level discussion of the perfect technology stack with Alan Williamson
A lengthy discussion with Alan Williamson on the "perfect technology stack". In today's environment do you HAVE to be running on Linux, or is Windows Server just fine for some shops? C# or Java? Java or Ruby on Rails? Should you be getting rid of all of your old perl and PHP code? Is this the end for relational databases? AngularJS or jQuery?
Sep 11, 2015 • 54min
Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener
Alan and Jim talk about the ins and outs of making applications run faster and scale to handle lots of users. We compare the two choices for scaling applications: Vertical scaling (adding more resources to existing machines), versus Horizontal scaling (spreading the load across multiple machines). We also discuss Amazon's AWS and EC2 platforms versus Microsoft Azure.
Aug 31, 2015 • 52min
ParkerGale's Updated Technology Stack
Devin and Jim catalog all of the software that the ParkerGale team has been using on a daily basis over the past year. We discuss the pros and cons of each, and tell you which apps have been moved to the trash bin.
Aug 21, 2015 • 50min
Lessons from Amazon's Culture Clash
Devin and Jim discuss the New York Times Amazon article. Is driving your people into the ground the only way to build successful technology companies? Is the CEO the last to know when it comes to company culture issues, or are they just turning a blind eye?
Aug 13, 2015 • 57min
After the Letter of Intent: Everything that a Founder Needs to Know
Jim talks with Ryan Milligan about all the different steps in closing a deal after the Letter of Intent gets signed. Everything that a Founder needs to know, but was afraid to ask. Customer calls, references, accounting audits, purchase agreements and lender meetings -- we tackle it all and more.
Aug 6, 2015 • 49min
Dominate a Niche or Build a Better Mousetrap
Jim and Devin discuss the two types of companies that we see in the middle market. You can either dominate a niche market (such as software targeted at specific verticals) or you can build a better mousetrap and try to capture the entire market.
Jul 30, 2015 • 49min
Public Investors vs. Private Investors -- Who is Smarter?
Ryan Milligan joins Jim and Devin to talk about Unicorns and argue about whether the public markets are smarter than the private markets. For the founder with a business between $3 - $5 million of EBITDA we answer the mult-million dollar question: Is it time to sell? Ryan discloses that he'd invest in the next round of PiedPiper, while Devin would rather own Hooli stock.
Jul 24, 2015 • 51min
More Product Management Fun with Grant Hunter
Jim talks in detail with Grant Hunter about the Product Manager role in middle market companies.
Jul 16, 2015 • 49min
Introduction to Product Management with Grant Hunter
A gentle introduction to product management with Grant Hunter.
Jun 30, 2015 • 57min
Innovator's Dilemma Meets the Blue Ocean
Jim and Devin discuss the Innovator's Dilemma and Blue Ocean Strategy as it relates to middle market portfolio companies.
