I spoke at the inaugural SaaSNorth event in Ottawa last week. It was an extremely well run and curated event bringing together 800 founders, investors and operators in Canadian SaaS.

In our last post on Real Exits I wrote about the importance of having regular conversations with the corporate development groups at potential acquirers. For this post, I’d like to take a step back to clarify exactly what corporate development means and does.

Localmind: An ideal Acquihire

In my last post I talked about acquihires. For this post I thought I’d share the story of an actual…

Paul Graham, co-founder of YCombinator, is a smart dude. Founders rightfully listen to what he has to say. One of his many pearls of wisdom is that founders should NOT talk to corporate development groups. Having spent the last 3 days in SF doing…

A look at Grabcad’s stellar exit

Since I ran into Grabcad’s founder Hardi Meybaum this morning at the Point Nine Capital event outside…

For my first exit example post here on Real Exits, I thought I’d go back to the first exit I went through as a CFO.

In 2006, I ran Finance for Terrascale Technologies. Terrascale was in the data storage space, feeding massive amounts of data into…