When you’re about to quit, things just start happening… My friends and I have been into road cycling for nearly a decade now. Weekly...

Social media use is probably at its highest today. I don’t think that I can point to one person in my personal and professional networks...

As I was recently getting up to speed with the personal care and beauty sector, I visited Sephora, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Ulta Beauty and a...

A few of my friends and I enjoy road cycling. Almost every Saturday we get together and put in 45-55 miles over 3 hours or so. Naturally,...

No matter the size of your business, sales growth is always at the top of the mind. It drives fundraising for start-ups and proves mature...

I recently listened to a book called “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. The main idea is identifying and managing bad and good habits....

Growth and funding growth don’t come cheap. Every business that had any success had to deal with a dilemma of expanding before or after...

I recently picked up “Blitzscaling, The Underlying Principals of Business Model Innovation”, written by Reid Hoffman. Its purpose, as it...

No one size fits all. The same goes for private equity firms and their approaches. Here’s a take from my experience and the way we...

In this post I’d like to talk how a typical private equity investor sees market opportunities and thinks about exit strategies and how we...

Family-owned businesses come in different shapes and kinds. A couple of very typical traits are the CEO/Founder is the Chief Everything...

Private equity rarely builds and more often buys, and this is by design. When I think of private equity, I see two main opportunities:...

One of the key building blocks of value creation in private equity is company transformation aligned with growth. We meet many...

Private markets are just as hot as any other these days. Available capital and smart money are looking for good businesses in all...

COVID-19 was unprecedented and destroyed many lives and businesses. This was also a stress test to the world infrastructure that exposed...

Most of the time when we hear about margins, we hear about Gross Margins. I’d like to talk about Standard Margins. These are mostly...

Growing your business is tough, scaling it is even tougher, and in many cases, it comes at a significant price. Paraphrasing one of our...

Just like castles were built with water around the walls to protect the structure from invaders, MOAT in business represents qualities of...

To set the stage, let’s assume we are working with a brand that had utilized a commercial kitchen to get started, had some sales and now...

I started AGC as a boutique private equity firm focusing on the Specialty F&B Space. We started off by targeting control buyouts....