Is your bank interested in customer retention?
Frequently we are invited to lunch by aggressive bankers looking for dealflow. They all tell us “You are buying and selling companies and we have money to lend for those transactions!” While we enjoyed meeting them, they didn’t realize the inherent weakness in their value proposition. Having money to lend is great. But so does […]
Are you CPA firm looking to increase revenues?
Does this sound familiar? Your client calls and asks for all the tax returns and P&L’s you generated for him over the last five years. You provide them and one day you learn that he has sold his business and retired. If you’re lucky, you prepare one more tax return and never hear from him […]
The Players Capital Footprint
There are fifty major league cities in North America, and we are building a team in every one of them. Each one of these markets has a unique economy interconnected with all others. Our business models connect investors and customers with others everywhere else. Some of these markets are bigger than others, but they all […]
Getting Started with Players Capital Group
All you need to get started is internet access and a computer. The more robust your technology hub the more you’ll be able to do, but with even just a smartphone you will be able to stay informed of the many opportunities we make available to you. Start Developing Business and Relationships Right away we […]
Expedited Introductions
Recently we received a call from our friends at IronClaim, the pre-eminent public adjusting firm in the world. Public adjusters represent insured people against their own insurers. Most people don’t realize that when your home or business burns to the ground or is destroyed by some other misfortune you don’t have to automatically accept what […]
Let Us Tune Up Your Balance Sheet!
A typical sell side client of ours might be a guy that started his company thirty years ago with one truck and a desire to conquer the world. Now he’s got a hundred trucks, or a hundred locations, or a hundred service lines that started as just one. When you’ve got a single truck, you […]
Corporate Exit Strategies
Thinking About Selling Your Company? Think about the importance of the decision you are making when you decide to sell the business that has been your life for a decade or three. This is a milestone event, something you do once or very few times in your lifetime, not unlike getting married, having children, and […]
Private Equity Deal Origination
Let us ramp up your deal flow! There are many ways that corporate investor groups source opportunities, and they range from the laughably inefficient to tremendously focused and effective. At the lower end of these efforts are obvious form letters from obviously junior associates of firms that are obviously fundless sponsors. These attempts are dead […]
We Play From The Blue Tees
Recently a group of Players Capital Group senior partners showed up at a golf course in North Carolina hoping to get in a round the day before some important meetings were to begin. The course was crowded, so the starter paired them with two other golfers at the first tee box. Introductions were made and […]
Participation Trophies
When a nationally prominent Mergers and Acquisitions advisory firm invited the CEO of a company we own to a seminar to explain their process for bringing a business to the market we were happy to attend the meeting if for no other reason than to see how our competitors operate. What we saw was a […]