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Are you special enough to get funded?
If you read the tech press regularly, you would be forgiven for thinking that it’s easy to raise capital these days. Every day is filled with new funding announcements. Rounds are getting bigger and...
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Our latest deal: The sale of Tictail to Shopify
I am pleased to announce our latest deal: The sale of Tictail to Shopify (NYSE: SHOP).Based in NYC and Stockholm, Sweden, Tictail is a mobile-first e-commerce platform serving emerging brands in over...
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Is now the right time to sell your business?
Source: https://www.bvp.com/strategy/cloud-computing/indexIf you follow the public stock markets, then you might be reaching for a bottle of Gravol these days. The markets are going through some pretty...
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2018: Year In Review
2018 marked our third year at SurePath. It was another exciting year!DealsWe closed 8 deals in 2018, up from 4 the prior year. In addition to the announced deals below we did a secondary for a large...
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Takeaways from the Acquisition of Mindbody
Mindbody shareholders got an early Christmas present on Dec. 24, when Vista Equity Partners agreed to buy them for $1.9B. As a devoted yogi, I have been a fan of Mindbody for years. While it was a...
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Thoughts on the upcoming Lightspeed IPO…
Source: Lightspeed POS preliminary prospectusAs a passionate advocate of both Canadian tech and the SMB software market, I have been waiting for some time for Lightspeed POS to go public. So, it was...
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Read this before you raise that next round
We just published our Q1 State of SMB Software report, looking at all the venture, private equity, M & A + IPO deals in the SMB space for Q1. By any measure it was a torrid quarter with over $35B...
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Don’t get pulled into a sale process
Once upon a time, there were relatively few buyers of software companies: Google, IBM, Oracle and the like bought lots of companies. And for the most part, buying was concentrated in the hands of...
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B2SMB Institute: Two upcoming SMB events worth considering
At SurePath, we are always looking for resources to help our SMB software clients succeed in this very challenging market. After following their progress since launch, The B2SMB Institute is a resource...
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Two decades in Startup land…
Twenty years ago today, I joined my first startup, Silanis Technology, as their first finance leader. They were a client of the firm I was at. We had helped them raise financing and we were their...
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