Sean Mooney

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Insights from the world of private equity, strategic consulting, and business intelligence.

Bain’s Global PE Report 2020: High Prices and Higher Stakes

Oh, what a difference a month makes. Prior to the coronavirus sending the world into a health pandemic and a global economic downturn, Bain & Company released its annual “Global Private Equity Report” to provide context and insights for the current year. While these reports often top 100 pages (which makes them somewhat cumbersome to digest), they are filled to the brim with useful information. I took a dive into this year’s report and pulled out some highlights. While it’s interesting to look...
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PE Firms, Value Creation, Finance

What you need to know about the CARES Act

Yesterday, we hosted a live “CARES Act” session in conjunction with The Cypress Group, a leading Washington DC advisory firm that advocates for the private equity industry and a member of the BluWave network. Our goal was to offer an up-to-the-minute, inside look into how the proposed bill would likely affect private equity and its portcos. Below is a high-level overview of the $2.2 trillion package, which provides insights into how the funds are being allocated. We encourage you to listen to...
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BluWave Insights

8 Tips for Weathering the Storm

This has to be the strangest St. Patrick’s Day on record. To me, the business world feels a lot like the fog during the few weeks after 9/11 and when the bank meltdowns reached a fever pitch in 2008. Just like then, I’m quite sure that calm will prevail and that “this too shall pass.” We’ve been getting all sorts of calls the last two weeks from fellow PE fund and portco clients to help understand how they can best get ahead during uncertain times. If nothing else, it feels good having...
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BluWave Insights, COVID19, coronavirus

COVID-19 According to BluWave Network Experts

On Thursday, March 5, 2020, we hosted a COVID-19 Intel Session for our PE fund stakeholders featuring leading experts from healthcare, government, and supply chain risks. For those who missed it, or perhaps aren’t officially part of our network yet, we wanted to provide the key takeaways on this important and rapidly-evolving topic. As you likely know, COVID-19 is highly contagious, but the fatality rate is likely to be far lower than currently reported figures that use confirmed cases as a...
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coronovirus, BluWave Insights, COVID19

BluWave’s 2018 Year in Review

A Year in Review In 2018 alone, BluWave supported over 700 private equity projects, providing due diligence, value creation, and private equity operations services to our clients. Upon review, we found that private equity funds and their portfolio companies are investing more and more resources in value creation initiatives. Due diligence services remain critical to understanding potential investment targets, but the way they’re done is evolving. As we look back on the previous year, we’d like...
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BluWave Insights

5 Value Creation Ideas for Private Equity Funds

The business of private equity is getting more business-like. Today, most private equity funds are largely managed like partnerships, not like the companies they own. However, many firms have realized the private equity industry has now matured into an industry and are starting to manage their own companies like their portfolio companies. Here are some value creation ideas being implemented with our other PE fund customers that can help you get the ball rolling on maximizing the effectiveness...
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Why Your Company Needs a Fully Realized Digital Marketing Strategy

As a player in the private equity space, you know the struggles of growing a company under tight deadlines and budgets. While you may think that digital marketing is better suited for “the other guys,” e.g. B2C firms, larger companies, groups targeting millennials, this isn’t the case. Middle market businesses across verticals can harness the power of digital marketing for business growth. Digital marketing is one of the most underused tools in the toolbox. By not implementing these methods and...
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digital marketing for business growth, how can digital marketing help your business, digital marketing benefits for business, how digital marketing helps a business

3 Ways to Increase Your Company’s Value

After nearly 20 years in private equity, I appreciate how hard it is to build and grow businesses in a constrained environment. Nothing is easy, but most things are possible with the right people and resources. Top private equity funds regularly ask us about ideas to help drive growth and reduce costs. Here are a few growth, organizational development, and cost reduction strategies that can be applied to build your business and drive value creation: Reach 1,000s of customers at a click of a...
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how to grow a business, Growth Strategies

How to Run Your PE Fund Like a Business

There are currently more than 4,000 private equity funds competing for limited opportunities. Economics 101 is hitting the PE industry hard: since the demand for investment opportunities has been growing and the actual number of opportunities has stayed consistent over time, PE investors are facing an uphill battle. To succeed in a crowded field, PE funds must now run their own organizations like their portfolio companies. Private equity funds are in the business of taking enterprises operating...
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How You Should Be Selecting the Right Service Providers

When used correctly, service providers can meaningfully improve the efficiency and productivity of your business and can dramatically help increase value. In a perfect world, your service providers work autonomously and efficiently to make universal improvements to your business. But that’s not often the case. Service providers not only need the right capabilities, but also ongoing guidance to perform their tasks to maximum effect. When done well, choosing and using the right service provider...
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