| This week we have Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. For detailed shownotes check out Mark Suster's blog post www.bothsidesofthetable.com If you don't know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Shame they didn't like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM We discussed: 1. The Montgomery Conference: one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC's, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already ... |
