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Books: Reviews and Excerpts

 

Midas Managers™: Review

Rob Slee discusses his book Midas Managers™ with the Charlotte Business Journal, March 30, 2007.

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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™.

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Private Capital Markets™

Learn about the book Private Capital Markets™, its audience and its author, Rob Slee.

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Private Capital Markets™: Course References

See who has taught Private Capital Markets™ courses.

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Presentations by Rob Slee

 

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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How to Survive an Economic Apocalypse

Discover eight tips to reinvent your business and survive an economic apocalypse in MoldMaking Technology, April 2009.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Different Buyers Pay Different Multiples

Examine value ranges for mid-sized companies in Data Link, May 1997.

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The Sound that Separates

Slee defines social contract and describes its contribution to America's problems.

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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.

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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.

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The Seven Most Important Steps to Improve Value

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SBV Financial Scorecard

Learn the formula for Financial Performance Strategies from Managing by the Numbers.

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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.

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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.

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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
 

 

MentorNotes

 

July 29, 2010: Debasing the Meaning of Value Demeans the Common Good by Lou De Rose, CMC

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January 22, 2010: Value and Cost in Medical Care by Lou De Rose, CMC

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November 23, 2009: Strategy, Tactics, and Small Business by Lou De Rose, CMC

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Midas Member Mentions

 

Bill Reading in "Mergers & Acquisitions" by ACG December 2011 - What is in store for deal makers in 2012?

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