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Last week Prism’s MD, Peter Watson, was back at the Cranfield School of Management co-presenting a two-day Selling Your Business Masterclass.  Peter has had a long association with the Cranfield through their highly acclaimed Business Growth Programme (BGP) on which he has been...

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Growing Your Business I spent last Friday at Cranfield School of Management, sitting on a panel reviewing business plans prepared by participants of their Business Growth Programme (BGP). Followers of Prism will know that I have a long association with Cranfield and BGP,...

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TM-the-PM’s election announcement last week caught most of us by surprise (even, rather pleasingly, most of the media). But what of the implications for Technology M&A? Some more uncertainty, yes, but we live in an uncertain world and with the techMARK All Share index up...

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Here at Prism it has been a very active start to the year. We went into 2017 having just completed the sale of B2 Group (a leading MPS player) to Arena Group and have since completed five further transactions – see our news pages for...

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We have frequently warned about what we refer to as ‘the myth of the multiple’. The two principal points being: 1. that unless you are privy to the full details of transactions, multiples can be highly misleading, and 2. that you must...

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2016 really has been the year of the unexpected – or perhaps ‘unpredicted’ would be a more appropriate word. In May Leicester City were confirmed as Premier League champions (at 5,000:1 the bookies certainly got that wrong), then in June we had Brexit (the politicians...

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The seemingly all pervasive Twitter is not enjoying such a great time just now. A shareholder lawsuit has just been filed against CEO Jack Dorsey and other officers accusing them of concealing information as they sold chunks of their shares in 2015 – for an...

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Halfway through the month a BBC forecaster pointed out that so far September had been hotter than June, July and August. I think he was talking about the weather but the market indicators for the Technology sector have been equally hot over the summer. The...

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Glorious sunshine in a fabulous blue sky. It’s over 28C in the shade. Our magnificent Olympians have just landed back at Heathrow to a heroes’ welcome. Oh, and Prism has just completed two more deals (see below). The Tech sector remains an active market for...

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I have absolutely no intention of writing a partisan piece about the pros or cons of the Brexit decision. As far as we at Prism are concerned, we are where we are and we all need to get on with things rather than either oozing...

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