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Fractional CFO vs fractional operating partner: which to hire first
If you are a PE-backed CEO or a sponsor reading this, you have probably been pitched both. The same fund partner who told you in March you needed a fractional CFO is in May suggesting a fractional operating partner. The two roles get conflated, and the pitch decks do not
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Top 10 private equity influencers operators follow
"PE influencer" is a phrase that should never have been written. But the people below are publishing real ideas about private equity, on platforms where the ideas reach beyond the conference circuit, and they are worth following if you work in or around the asset class. Mix of
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The tech stack is fine. The behaviour stack is broken.
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By the time the board calls, the damage is already expensive.
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Digital is still the weakest section in most exit decks. Crazy.
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PE diligence loves upside. Survival gets about three slides.
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Most people miss the monsters because they look too small.
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Most portfolio companies do not need an AI strategy yet. They need basic visibility.
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Top 10 private equity value creation firms PE sponsors hire
PE sponsors do not run portfolio companies. Operating partners and value creation specialists do. The firms below are the ones sponsors actually retain when in-house OP capacity runs out, or when the asset needs senior outside firepower without the cost of full-time hires. The category is fragmenting fast. Five years
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Top 10 private equity newsletters operators actually read
Private equity has a newsletter problem. Too many of them. Most are vendor newsletters dressed up as analysis. A few are genuinely useful. The list below is the genuinely useful set, ranked by what an operator or sponsor actually gets from reading them weekly. The order is rough. The first
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