Given an industry agnostic firm, what would you say is a solid checklist for evaluating investment teasers in order to decide which companies to pass on vs which to continue with the analysis process?
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The check list could literally be your fund's website i.e. fund's focus:
industry/product match?
revenues? (i.e. size & stage: growth/restructuring/etc.) --> potential platform vs. buy & build?
profitability? (may hint equity ticket size)
I appreciate your response. To add some color, this would be for a profitable growth and mature stage private equity investment opportunities. I am curious if anybody has a regular checklist they uniformly apply to evaluating teasers, for example:
i'm sorry aren't buy&build and a platform investment the same thing? if not what's the actual difference?
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