What Makes a Business Acquisition Successful?
Acquisitions are among the most consequential decisions a company can make. Done well, they bring new capabilities, customers and talent in a single step.
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Building Companies for the Long Term
It is easier than ever to start a company and harder than ever to keep one going. Trends move fast, attention is short and the pressure to grow quickly is constant.
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The Future Vision of Boston Made
People often ask me where Boston Made is headed. The honest answer is that our direction is clearer than any single product or date. I want to share the principles that guide where we are going, so that readers, customers and partners understand what to expect from us.
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IPO vs. Direct Listing vs. Reverse Merger
Founders who dream about taking a company public usually picture one thing: the bell ringing on the day of an IPO. In reality, there is more than one road to the public markets, and each comes with its own costs, risks and obligations.
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What Investors Look For Before Investing
Over the years I have sat on both sides of the table — asking for support for my own ventures and helping other founders get ready to ask for theirs. The same lessons come up again and again.
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Creating an Investor Relations Website
An investor relations website is one of the clearest signals a company can send about how seriously it takes transparency. For public companies, a strong IR site is a core part of how they communicate with shareholders.
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The Importance of Transparency in Corporate Leadership
Transparency is easy to talk about and hard to practice. It asks leaders to share bad news as readily as good news, to explain decisions they could simply announce and to admit when they got something wrong.
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Understanding Corporate Ethics Programs
Every company has an ethics program, whether it writes one down or not. The program is simply the set of expectations people actually follow when no one is watching and the right answer is inconvenient.
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How Parent Companies Support Subsidiary Growth
A parent company exists to make the businesses it owns stronger than they would be on their own. That is the whole test. If a subsidiary would do just as well without its parent, the structure is adding cost without adding value.
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Digital Transformation and the Modern Enterprise
Digital transformation is one of the most overused phrases in business, and one of the most misunderstood. It is not about buying software. It is about changing how a company works so that technology makes it faster, more reliable and closer to its customers.
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Understanding Corporate Risk Management
Every company carries risk. The ones that last are the ones that decide, on purpose, which risks they will take, which they will avoid and which they will hand to someone else.
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Building a Media Company Inside a Holding Company
People sometimes ask why a holding company would run newsrooms, a reader app and a family of story-driven websites. My answer is simple: every company needs to tell its story, and the best way I know to do that well is to treat storytelling as a real business rather than a side project.
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The Importance of Investor Communications
Trust is the real currency between a company and the people who back it. Investors, lenders and partners can forgive a bad quarter.
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How Companies Prepare for Going Public
Ringing the opening bell is a powerful image, but the day a company goes public is the end of a very long road, not the beginning. Most of the work happens years earlier, quietly, in how the company keeps its books, governs itself and tells its story.
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How Intellectual Property Creates Long-Term Enterprise Value
Most of what a company is worth cannot be stacked on a shelf. It lives in names, ideas, code, designs, processes and relationships. That is intellectual property in the broad sense, and over a long enough horizon it is usually the part of a business that compounds the most.
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Why Strategic Partnerships Matter More Than Ever
No company grows alone. Every business I have built has depended on someone else’s skill, audience, infrastructure or trust. The question is never whether to work with partners.
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Internal Controls Every Growing Business Should Implement
Internal Controls Every Growing Business Should Implement This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and operational
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What Is a Corporate Veil and Why Does It Matter?
What Is a Corporate Veil and Why Does It Matter? This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic
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The Role of a Board of Directors in Modern Companies
The Role of a Board of Directors in Modern Companies This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic
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Preparing a Startup for Future Investment
The best time to prepare your company for investment is long before you need the money. Founders who wait until they are raising often discover gaps — in their records, their numbers or their story — that slow everything down at exactly the wrong moment.
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Creating a Corporate Records Management Program
Every company is, in a sense, a long chain of decisions and promises. Records are how you prove what was decided and what was promised.
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Corporate Compliance for Small Businesses
Corporate Compliance for Small Businesses This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and operational discipline are
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How Boston Made Evaluates New Business Opportunities
How Boston Made Evaluates New Business Opportunities This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and operational
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Building a Portfolio of Digital Assets
Building a Portfolio of Digital Assets This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and operational discipline
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Understanding Subsidiaries: How Parent Companies Manage Multiple Brands
Understanding Subsidiaries: How Parent Companies Manage Multiple Brands This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and
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The Difference Between a Brand, DBA, Subsidiary, and Corporation
The Difference Between a Brand, DBA, Subsidiary, and Corporation This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning,
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Why Every Growing Company Needs Governance Policies
Why Every Growing Company Needs Governance Policies This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance, strategic planning, and operational
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What Is a Holding Company and Why Do Businesses Use Them?
What Is a Holding Company and Why Do Businesses Use Them? This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a parent company focused on developing brands, subsidiaries, intellectual property, and long-term enterprise value, Boston Made explores the principles that help organizations scale responsibly. Organizations that invest in governance, compliance,
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