As the CFO of a firm whose software offerings are designed to help other middle-market CFOs cut loose from the day-to-day grind of manual processes, Charles Best of BlackLine Systems is passionate about the availability of new tools for finance professionals via the cloud. MME asked Best about how he views the cloud’s impact [...]
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Colleen Taylor, an executive vice president at Capital One in New York, has spent her career revamping treasury organizations, as she retooled training programs for new employees and triggered changes that allowed banks to better anticipate and respond to the next wave of client demands. However, it’s the things that no one can anticipate [...]
The Curious Case of Trintech: How a $40 Million Firm Grew into a Start-Up
Dallas — Having recently turned 22, Trintech, a financial software developer, is now hurrying to turn back the clock and devolve its organizational rhythms into those more closely associated with a software start-up. Of course, converting a $40 million firm into a nimble entrepreneurial enterprise is no easy feat. Still, Darren Heffernan, CFO and [...]
Top 12 Tips to Get the Most Value From the Sale of Your Middle-Market Business
A little planning can go a long way toward helping you to obtain the maximum value for your business. The sooner you begin, the better. Throughout my career in leading the sales and purchases of middle-market businesses nationwide, I’ve found the following 12 tips to be the most helpful for business owners planning to [...]
Growth Monitor: Michael Hecht, President & CEO, Greater New Orleans, Inc.
New Orleans, LA — Asked how New Orleans recently managed to rank third — just below Silicon Valley (1st) and San Francisco (2nd) — when it comes to U.S. metro areas attracting information jobs, Michael Hecht of Greater New Orleans, Inc., a local economic development nonprofit group, says, “We realize that it may seem completely [...]
Merger-Minded Business Leaders in Short Supply Despite Growing Middle-Market Optimism
As we advance into the second half of 2013, there are growing indications that business sentiment is improving despite nagging unemployment numbers and a shortage of merger-minded CEOs. Cindy Crotty, middle-market business watcher and head of KeyBank’s commercial banking segment, once more shared with Middle-Market Executive the findings of a KeyBank’s middle-market business sentiment survey, which [...]
New Orleans: The Sleeper Arbitrage Opp for Economic Development
New Orleans, LA — Asked how New Orleans recently managed to rank third — just below Silicon Valley (1st) and San Francisco (2nd) — when it comes to U.S. metro areas attracting information jobs, Michael Hecht of Greater New Orleans, Inc., a local economic development nonprofit group, says, “We realize that it may seem [...]
Lower Middle-Market Firms Remain Bullish on Economy
As we adavance deep inside 2013′s second quarter, middle-market business leaders continue to echo a bold new sentiment, according to Middle Market Executive’s 2013 Growth Study Optimism is clearly the word that best sums up a number of the 2013 Growth Study’s key findings. According to the study, 92 percent of lower-middle-market firms surveyed [...]
The Care and Feeding of Growth Companies
Recognized as one of economic gardening’s early champions, Steve Quello, CEO of CEO Nexus, explains that when it comes to economic development, the edicts of entrepreneurial enterprise extend far beyond start-ups. MME: When do you know that a community is ready to embrace economic gardening? Quello: First, there needs to be an acknowledgment that [...]
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