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Monday, May 28, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Planning Notes: Weekend of NATO in Chicago, May 18-21, 2012:
What a great
time to be in Chicago! The weather is absolutely ideal, the streets eerily
quiet, and the whole world now watching the arriving national leaders for some
very important decisions about our future. I am delighted to announce that
after many years of market research, we too are making some decisions of our
own. To help to a much better job of telling “our story”, we have
now retained much needed professional help.
As you will see
with the following overview notes, although this is so very extremely important
for our future, it is really is not that complicated. But you must know this so
you can share it with others. Please carefully review the following so that
you, as our Alliance spokesperson to the world, clearly understand and
can effectively communicate this essential message as a key representative of
“The Alliance”.
“Our Story” is
about how, for the 1st time ever, we, as a new Alliance of
professional organizations, are joining the market facts of today, forming new
solutions….together. We’re organizing a whole new way to maximize
business value at a time when America, and the whole world, desperately need it
most!
“From 1995 - 2009, private
capital-backed companies grew jobs by 81.5%, while all other companies in the
U.S. economy grew jobs by 11.7%.”
(From:Growtheconomy.org)
Think of
everything we are now doing in the private middle market as a timely and
critical “new movement” to restore growth and prosperity in America and the
world! Concerned professionals of all types seeking a bigger and better
future are invited to join us here in Chicago in just a few weeks to “learn
and earn more together”! Here is our grand secret:
it is not me, or you, AM&AA, or any other single person or
organization on earth. The simple but all powerful solution to our big problem
is the collective WE. We, as in a whole new way: a.k.a.
“collective intelligence”, “wisdom of the crowd”, “crowd sourcing”,
“open education”, cloud computing, multi-disciplinary collaboration, openly and
freely sharing proven “best practices” , etc. etc. Understand these
essential points to tell others what our Alliance is all about:
A.
New
Research on the Global Importance of the overlooked and underserved middle
market
The middle
marketplace for private companies is highly fragmented and often fails to
capture any substantial efficiency in scale, particularly in the lower end of
the middle market for companies valued at less than $150 million. Consider:
•
Over 90% of all business enterprises in North America and the majority of
businesses internationally are privately-owned.
•
Private businesses account for 78% of all new job creation, 60% of the nation's
employment and 50% of the GDP
•
If the U.S. Middle Market were a country, its GDP would rank it as the
fourth-largest economy in the world, just behind Japan’s
(From GE
Capital 2011 National Middle Market Summit, The Market that Moves America
Insights, Perspectives, and Opportunities from Middle Market Companies GE
Capital and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business)
B.
Current
near staggering M&A market imbalance at mid-year 2012 (with too much money from PE over $400
billion and Corp. cash of $1.8 trillion all chasing too few deals)
C.
Big
reason that companies are not market ready: they are failing to create “market
value” (generate returns in excess of cost of capital; breakthrough Slee
research at Pepperdine)
D.
New
research on this market identifies ways to learn from the best to become a
“growth champion” (OSU research funded by GE capital $10 million study)
E.
Washington
has just responded with massive new “JOBS Act” featuring “crowd-funding” and new
market solutions for emerging growth companies with sales up to $1 billion
F.
And
now, in this year of elections, you too must respond: Help yourself and others thrive in this
new world of enormous uncertainty. Connect and Learn what works from the
world’s best by coming to Chicago this July. (As previously noted, not only is
this large Mid Market the world’s 4th largest economy, coincidently, Chicago
has just been listed as the 4th most powerful center business in the world!)
Think
about it all this beautiful spring day….What do you choose to add to this
emerging new story?
Michael R. Nall, CPA, CM&AA,
CGMA
Founder, Alliance of M&A
Advisors
200 East Randolph St., 24th
Floor
Chicago, IL. 60601