New workshop assists digital services businesses to grow and exit

We're delighted to invite experienced entrepreneur, corporate advisor and investor, Matt Costello, to lead a new workshop called Valuing and Growing your Digital Business to be held in Sydney on 14 October, 2015. Mini MBA for digital agencies Bookings now open for the intensive one-day. Key outcomes of this business bootcamp for digital workshop Business Valuations - what acquirers looking for and how they value the digital business Management Dashboards - how to best track the right information in your business. You will build a dashboard on the day Financial Management - understanding the balance sheet, business case developments and financial ratios specific to digital Press ...

Follow the money: Interview with Matt Costello, Newport Capital on valuing digital agencies

What’s your day job? I'm a Director at Newport Capital Group Pty Ltd. Newport is a TMT sector specialist corporate advisory and investment  banking firm established in 1989. The company has completed hundreds of transactions over the years in capital raising, divestments, mergers and acquisitions in the Technology, Media and Telco space including Digital services and digital media. Transactions that the company have undertaken include; My role here is to lead our clients through the transactions which include preparing the company for due diligence, valuation guidance which often includes an analysis of similar transactions and then researching and approaching potential acquirers or ...

Interview with Elmar Platzer, PhotoMerchant

What's your day job? CEO & Co-Founder of PhotoMerchant which provides photographers with the tools they need to manage their photography business on the Internet. Responsible for operations, business development, financial management, and capital raising.   What type of projects does your company work on – how long do they run? No projects, we run a SaaS business. It’s an application that’s hosted in the cloud. We constantly evolve the application adding new functionality, improving it and so on.   How did you get started in digital? In the mail room. No, I’m making this up. I came into digital via systems integration, content, mobile aggregation and enablement ...