Jay Sachetti joined Jeff O’Brien, partner at Husch Blackwell and Dyanne Ross-Hanson, president of Exit Planning Strategies talked about the market for mergers and acquisitions, exit planning opportunities for companies that don’t end up for sale and how companies can maximize their eventual sale price during an early October panel at the first Upsize on Tap event at Summit Brewing Co. in St. Paul.
When the state Legislature passed a law requiring employers to provide paid leave and safe time for employees, Justin Bieganek started hearing differing details from friends, colleagues and peers.
Local tech entrepreneurs, be advised: If you get a call from Mike Porter, call him back to contribute to his new research project.
Porter wants to learn from local tech entrepreneurs how they find their angel investors. The president of Sopra Voce Communications in Bloomington, he is launching a research project to be the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation.
The goal is to learn how these sometimes hidden folks find each other, why they invest and whether more people of means can be convinced to back emerging companies.
He figures it will be complete in about 18 months, and may be suitable for a popular article as well as an academic treatise. “Although I’m becoming an academic, I can never get away from the practical,” he says.
Porter is an adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University, and is completing his doctorate at the University of St. Thomas. He’s been involved in technology startups and in the communications business, and says he plans to keep his communications consulting clients when he’s a professor, his ultimate goal.
Mike Porter, Sopra Voce Communications: 952.881.3426; mc*@********ce.com; www.sopra-voce.com
