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Articles and White Papers by Rob Slee
MidasMoments (formerly MidasNotes)
Strategic Benchmarking for Value (SBV) Presented by Tim Rhine
Midas Managers™: Review
Rob Slee discusses his book Midas Managers™ with the Charlotte Business Journal, March 30, 2007.
Midas Marketing™: Chapter 6 - Giving the Shirt Off Our Backs, Rob Slee
Rethink your relationship with customers while exploring two marketing approaches: one relying on a traditional model of owning everything and the other on leveraging the community, in this chapter from Midas Marketing™.
Private Capital Markets™
Learn about the book Private Capital Markets™, its audience and its author, Rob Slee.
Private Capital Markets™: Course References
See who has taught Private Capital Markets™ courses.
The Private Cost of Capital
Discover the principles behind the private cost of capital. What is cost of capital? What does finance currently teach? How do public and private markets differ? How are capital markets segmented? What is the private cost of capital model?
Articles and White Papers by Rob Slee
Using the Private Cost of Capital Model by Rob Slee and John K. Paglia
The Value Examiner, May/June 2011.
Private Cost of Capital Model by Rob Slee and John K. Paglia
Examine the structure of private capital markets, two recent private capital markets surveys, a new discount rate model and the impact of a private discount rate model on business appraisal in The Value Examiner, March/April 2010.
A Primer on Lending's New Age
Explore the question "How is the economic downturn affecting the behavior of private capital providers?" in the Charlotte Business Journal, July 10, 2009.
The New Math of Middle-Market M&A
Explore the issues surrounding the fall of acquisition multiples and the number of completed deals in the lower middle market in The Value Examiner, July/August 2009.
How to Survive an Economic Apocalypse
Discover eight tips to reinvent your business and survive an economic apocalypse in MoldMaking Technology, April 2009.
In Search of the Midas Touch: Get Strategic or Get Out!
Learn about our entry into the Conceptual Age, what it means for business owners and the options available to these owners.
What You Need to Know about Finance: Keys to Understanding Private Capital Markets™
Explore finance principles for private-company managers in The Value Examiner, September/October 2006.
Public and Private Capital Markets Are Not Substitutes
Explore the factors differentiating the public and private markets and an examination of these factors at numerous levels including behavioral analysis, market structures and investor return expectations in BAP, Spring 2005.
Old Philosophers Offer New Insights on Explaining Modern Capital Markets
Slee looks to the education classics as he establishes his triadic logic for Private Capital Markets in The Key Reporter, Fall 2004.
Business Owners Choose a Transfer Value
Learn how business owners' transfer motives choose a range of values for the business in the Journal of Financial Planning, June 2004.
Start with Education to Tackle the Job Drain
Explore education reform as a way to win the economic war in America in the Charlotte Business Journal, March 26, 2004.
It's the Globalization, Stupid: The Cold Truth about Layoffs
Read about unemployment and the underlying economic situation in the United States. Slee also presents his premise on those who will keep their jobs in Creative Loafing, July 16, 2003.
Beware of the Fifty Percent Partner!
Examine the need for an ownership agreement between owners at the time of a merger in M&A Insider, Winter 2001.
Different Buyers Pay Different Multiples
Examine value ranges for mid-sized companies in Data Link, May 1997.
The Sound that Separates
Slee defines social contract and describes its contribution to America's problems.
Capital Market Segmentation Matters, Rob Slee and Richard M. Trottier
Explore the use of common financial models and valuation methods and how they are misused in the valuation of private companies. Also, understand the importance of capital market segmentation in determining a company's value.
Strategic Benchmarking for Value (SBV) Presented by Tim Rhine
The Return on Equity Planner
Learn about an SBV financial analysis tool for business owners and managers that determines the financial drivers of their businesses. Also, explore what-if scenarios for improving financial positions. January 30, 2006.
The Seven Most Important Steps to Improve Value
SBV Financial Scorecard
Learn the formula for Financial Performance Strategies from Managing by the Numbers.
Driving Your Company's Value, Assisting Business Owners in Creating Wealth: Volume 6, Issue 3
Discover the SBV model and its Process Entry Points, which include ROSE analysis, Mobley Matrix, DuPont formula and Management Education in Tim Rhine's newsletter Driving Your Company's Value, Winter 2007.
Driving Your Company's Value, Assisting Business Owners in Creating Wealth: Volume 6, Issue 2
Read about achieving value goals in a business transfer, SBV as a structured process for creating, increasing and realizing value, and seven steps to increase the value of your company in Tim Rhine's newsletter Driving Your Company's Value, June 2006.
MidasMoments (formerly MidasNotes)
May 20, 2013: Home Loan Program
May 13, 2013: The One-Off M&A Market
May 6, 2013: Come Sail Away With Me
April 29, 2013: Where Art Though, Green Shoots?
April 22, 2013: My 20 Minutes with Jimmy
April 15, 2013: Let's Talk About Jobs
April 8, 2013: The Math of the Middle Market
April 1, 2013: A $50 Million Phone Call
March 25, 2013: The Future Is Unevenly Distributed
March 18, 2013: The Real World is Where the Monsters Are
March 11, 2013: In the Minds of Business Owners
March 4, 2013: Things I Find Pathetically Funny
February 25, 2013: Are You a Mechanic or a Psychologist?
February 18, 2013: Buying Zombies for Next to Nothing
February 11, 2013: Market Makers 201
February 4, 2013: Why Boomers Destroyed America
January 28, 2013: Buying Zombies
January 21, 2013: The Time for Talking is Over
January 14, 2013: The Downside of Being Normal
January 7, 2013: Cultures of Disservice
December 31, 2012: Things I Hope to Learn in 2013
December 24, 2012: Slee Down Under
December 17, 2012: We Are What We Read
December 10, 2012: Dealing With Dysfunction
December 3, 2012: Five Hundred Ways to Transfer Your Business
November 26, 2012: The Suckers in the Room
November 19, 2012: Control Freaks and the American Dream
November 12, 2012: And Now For the Rest of the Story
November 5, 2012: It's a Show About Nothing
October 29, 2012: The World is Still Round
October 22, 2012: That Sliver in Your Mind
October 15, 2012: Behold the Men Behind the Curtain
October 8, 2012: Let's Talk About Interest Rates
October 1, 2012: Why Business Owners Don't Plan
September 24, 2012: More Dark Secrets from a Master Dealmaker
September 17, 2012: Dark Secrets of a Master Dealmaker
September 10, 2012: Help!
September 3, 2012: Creating A More Valuable View
August 27, 2012: 3-D Printing - Revisited
August 20, 2012: Economic Armageddon Day is Here!
August 13, 2012: Zombies Among Us
August 6, 2012: The Clash of Generations
July 30, 2012: Private Auctions
July 23, 2012: Ramblings of a Madman
July 16, 2012: What Would the Founding Fathers Do?
July 9, 2012: Where is John Galt?
July 2, 2012: Things I've Learned the Hard Way
June 25, 2012: A Trip Outside the Box
June 18, 2012: Solving Debt Problems With More Debt
June 11, 2012: MidasFund
June 4, 2012: Your Man In China 2
May 28, 2012: Your Man In China
May 21, 2012: My Take on Europe
May 14, 2012: That Will Never Work!
May 7, 2012: Things I Can't Figure Out
April 30, 2012: America's Private Value Creation Crisis
April 23, 2012: Deming & Me
April 16, 2012: Will Crowd Funding Be Good for the Crowd?
April 9, 2012: Waking Up Dead
April 2, 2012: Chinese Factoids
March 26, 2012: Why Acquire Businesses in 2012-2013?
March 19, 2012: Chasing Alpha
March 12, 2012: Grow Your Own Niche Conglomerate
March 5, 2012: The Coming Jobs War
February 27, 2012: Regressing to the Mean
February 20, 2012: China's Golden Moment
February 13, 2012: America Is In Transition
February 6, 2012: A Taxonomy of Value Creation Viewpoints
January 30, 2012: Steve (and $500 per hour) Jobs
January 23, 2012: Another Slee Book!
January 16, 2012: Leveraged Selling
January 9, 2012: Extreme Value
January 2, 2012: A Positive Moment
December 26, 2011: Terms That Will Dominate 2012
December 19, 2011: Enemies of the State
December 12, 2011: Beware the Corporate Chieftain
December 5, 2011: It's All About Me
November 28, 2011: Countdown to Economic Armageddon Day
November 21, 2011: There Is No Teaching
November 14, 2011: Raising Capital Today
November 7, 2011: Do You Have The Stones?
October 31, 2011: The High Cost of Fame
October 24, 2011: The Paradoxes of M&A
October 17, 2011: What Would You Do?
October 10, 2011: Why Math in the U.S. No Longer Adds Up
October 3, 2011: Calling All Wizards
September 26, 2011: Something Wicked This Way Comes
September 19, 2011: Entitled America
September 12, 2011: Make Big Money as Part of the Crowd
September 5, 2011: Where Are The Jobs On This Labor Day
August 29, 2011: Where to Invest Your Money - Revisted
August 22, 2011: Economic Armageddon Day: One Year Countdown
August 15, 2011: Idiot America
August 8, 2011: Cracking the Midas Code
August 1, 2011: Atlas Continues To Shrug
July 25, 2011: Ode to the History Major 2
July 18, 2011: Midas Micro Multinationals
July 11, 2011: Grampa Slee Says Let It Burn
July 4, 2011: The Boiling Frog
June 27, 2011: The Road Less Traveled
June 20, 2011: Ramblings of a Road Warrior
June 13, 2011: The Thing About Hope
June 6, 2011: Bingo!!!!!
May 30, 2011: Private Capital Markets 2 is Out!
May 23, 2011: Are You Creating Value in Your Business?
May 16, 2011: More Signs of Economic Armageddon Day
May 9, 2011: Warren Buffett - Midas Manager
May 2, 2011: Public versus Private Markets
April 25, 2011: From Russia with Love
April 18, 2011: Market Makers
April 11, 2011: Your Midas Path to Financial Independence
April 4, 2011: Treading Water in a Rip Tide
March 28, 2011: Rob Slee - Benevolent Dictator
March 21, 2011: 3-D Printing
March 14, 2011: Big Ramp Attack
March 7, 2011: Economic Armageddon Day
February 28, 2011: Beware the Matrix
February 21, 2011: Even More Things I Think I Think
February 14, 2011: The Value Gap
February 7, 2011: The Truth is Killing Us
January 31, 2011: Doing versus Convincing
January 24, 2011: Chinese Mothers
January 17, 2011: MidasSourcing
January 10, 2011: Private Capital Markets 2
January 3, 2011: Back in the Day
December 27, 2010: My New Year's Value Resolution
December 20, 2010: My Positive Relationship with Failure
December 13, 2010: How We Got Here
December 6, 2010: The World is a Mighty Big Place
November 29, 2010: Confessions of a Niche-aholic
November 22, 2010: When Politics Meets Math
November 15, 2010: MBA's - Lost in Translation
November 8, 2010: It's a Worldview Thing
November 1, 2010: MidasNation in the News! http://www.midasnation.com/userfiles/files/MidasNation%20CLT%20Biz%20Reprint.pdf
October 25, 2010: When in Rome
October 18, 2010: Start the Revolution!
October 11, 2010: Death by Middle
October 4, 2010: We're Fat - and That's That
September 27, 2010: Calling All Control Freaks
September 20, 2010: The View from Outside the Matrix
September 13, 2010: Back Aboard the USS Titanic
September 6, 2010: A Word on Acquisition Multiples
August 30, 2010: All That Glitters is Not Gold
August 23, 2010: Two of My Favorite Myths
August 16, 2010: Our Have and Have-Not Society
August 9, 2010: How MidasNation Works
August 2, 2010: More Things I Think I Think
July 26 2010: Generational Cycles
July 19, 2010: Grampa Slee Says
July 12, 2010: My Favorite Word in the English Language
July 5, 2010: Where to Invest Your Money?
June 28, 2010: Is It Finally Time to Listen to Midas Managers?
June 21, 2010: The Future of Jobs
June 14, 2010: Some Extremely Helpful Things to Know
June 7, 2010: The U.S.S. Titanic
May 31, 2010: The War We Must Win
May 24, 2010: PIIGS R U.S.
May 17, 2010: Get the %$#& Off the Roof!
May 10, 2010: The Private Recession
May 3, 2010: My Favorite Disconnects
April 26, 2010: Ode to the History Major
April 19, 2010: How Will You Get Out of Your Hole?
April 12, 2010: Sarah and Me
April 5, 2010: Positive Deviance for All
March 29, 2010: Things I Think I Think
March 22, 2010: My Ukrainian Adventure
March 15, 2010: My Russian Odyssey
March 8, 2010: Stocks Will Fall and Why
March 1, 2010: Talent is Soooo Overrated
February 22, 2010: Risky Business
February 15, 2010: Tick...Tick...Tick
February 8, 2010: Timing the Transfer Market
February 1, 2010: Play the Transfer Timing Slots Game
January 25, 2010: The Great American Reset
January 18, 2010: The Sound That Separates
January 11, 2010: What's Really Happening in the Private Capital Markets?
January 4, 2010: 2K10: The Year of Value Creation?
December 28, 2009: Why Old White Men are Killing America-Part II
December 21, 2009: Why 60-Year Old White Men are Killing America
December 14, 2009: Aggregate Your Way to Business Success
December 7, 2009: Get Out of Your Silo
November 30, 2009: Are You Mixed-Up About Mashups?
November 23, 2009: It's the Globalization, Stupid
November 16, 2009: Our Corridors of Innovation
November 9, 2009: The Case of the Missing Business Plan
November 2, 2009: Deja Vu All Over Again
October 26, 2009: Our Zombie Banks
October 19, 2009: As The World Turns-Exponentially
October 12, 2009: The Melting Jobs Market
October 5, 2009: First Note
July 29, 2010: Debasing the Meaning of Value Demeans the Common Good by Lou De Rose, CMC
January 22, 2010: Value and Cost in Medical Care by Lou De Rose, CMC
November 23, 2009: Strategy, Tactics, and Small Business by Lou De Rose, CMC
Bill Reading in "Mergers & Acquisitions" by ACG December 2011 - What is in store for deal makers in 2012?
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