Even though the price in a PE transaction is important, other drivers such as cash vs non-cash financing, closing certainty (the buyer's likelihood to achieve a successful closing), the operating, strategic know-how, and professionalism and speed are considered by the seller.

One of the key strategies within PE is to apply successful business strategies to new industries: on-demand services, asset-light operations, outsourcing, or "buy-and-build". If restaurants operate as chains, why don't nurseries or school operate as chains?

Metcalfe's law states that the value of your network is proportional to the number of working nodes in it.

💡PE Insight: Networks reduce the cost of deal search and afford economies of scale and scope in your search efforts.

Professional connectivity is a form of social capital that should be cultivated as carefully as talent, financial capital, or physical property.

Urgency outranks empathy in private equity owned businesses.

What is a master list of most common value drivers in PE? I will start: 1. Achieve operational and financial efficiency with a) better governance, and reporting, b) promotion of mgmt accountability through incentives, and c) reduction of operational complexity.