Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, are experts on an overlooked entrepreneurial path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company ($500,000 to $2,500,000 in annual profits) lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. In their new book, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business", Ruback and Yudkoff help you: - Determine a

According to PitchBook, M&A deals announced last month represent $189.22 billion in total value, some $33.92 billion more than January 2016 and roughly double that of January 2010. $189.22 billion in M&A represents over $6 billion per day in January! While January 2017 saw the highest dollar value of merger and acquisition transactions ever, it also saw the lowest January deal count since 2010. January 2017's 1,133 deals is less than half of January 2016's 2,507. With 22 deal

Mark Cuban, the billionaire business man who has had his ups and downs with public companies, recently spoke on stage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles to voice his concern about the lack of tech IPOs. “I don’t understand the reticence to going public,” he said. “It’s just plain stupid.” After a slow 2016, many are looking at Snap, Inc. to jump start tech IPOs in 2017. One example Cuban discussed was AppDynamics. AppDynamics was supposed to IPO in January but it was acqui

Yesterday, LD Micro announced a reconstitution of their microcap index - the LD Micro Index (or LDMi). The LD Micro Index is designed to give a more accurate picture of North American microcap performance than other "microcap indexes". Constituents have an average market cap of $150 million and are traded on the NYSE/AMEX, Nasdaq, OTC Markets (all tiers), TSX, and TSX Venture. To qualify for inclusion in the index, issuers must meet minimum liquidity, market cap, and filing t