Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDebunking The Failure Mythology
Devin and Jim spend some time talking about the "Failure Mythology" -- the idea that you need to fail in a big way on the path to building a great co…
10 years, 4 months ago
Radio Killed the Podcast Star
Small change of pace. Here's a replay of Kristina's WGN Business Lunch interview talking about private equity, being a mom and other fun stuff.
10 years, 5 months ago
Bootstrapping & Selling Your Software Company
Devin sits down with Dave Will, the founder of Peach New Media, a software company he founded, bootstrapped and recently sold to AccelKKR. Dave gets …
10 years, 5 months ago
Can Unicorns Hurt Buyouts?
Devin and Jim talk about Unicorns -- not the mythical horse with
a horn, but rather
the club of billion-dollar-plus tech companies. How is this marke…
10 years, 5 months ago
Board Meetings -- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Devin and Jim welcome their partner Kristina to her first podcast where they talk about how to run a good board meeting. Who to invite, what to cover…
10 years, 5 months ago
It's a LOG way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll
Alan and Jim spend some time talking about tracking events and errors in application software logs. Most companies are at least monitoring their w…
10 years, 5 months ago
March Madness 2016 -- Elite Eight
It's our annual March Madness show. Hosted by two guys that don't know a THING about college basketball -- so our March Madness is all about Private…
10 years, 6 months ago
Most Common Technology Challenges that we find when we acquire a founder-owned technology company
Jim and Alan spend some quality time talking about the most common technology challenges that we uncover when we acquire a founder owned technology c…
10 years, 6 months ago
How PE Hires Management Teams
Devin sits down with Chris Morgan, the founder of Lantern Partners, an executive search firm focused on hiring C-Suite executives at PE-backed compan…
10 years, 6 months ago
Shiny New Toy Syndrome -- And what the Founder can do about it.
Alan and Jim spend some quality time talking about the Shiny New Toy problem (SNTS) in software development. The tendency for software teams to pin…
10 years, 7 months ago