Investing in Death

Companies die all the time. Until recently, it’s been a quiet process. One recent example is the grocery chain A&P, originally known as the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.  Growing up in the 1960s in NJ, my family frequented A&P as our everyday grocery store. Back in...

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The Lords of Strategy Have No Clothes

There’s a dirty little secret inside the premium strategy consultancies. They don’t do strategy. At least, not anymore. What is it that they do instead? They sell--over and over--the same project plans that large corporate clients like to buy in volume. Across dozens of offices, years of experience,...

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XLP Publishes Report On Venture Deal Sourcing

XLP Strategy Research Group announces today the release of a research report addressed to venture capital fund managers, fund administrators, managing directors, family offices, and institutional investors. The report describes the dynamic and changing nature in which tech venture funds must stay competitive for proprietary deal flow. The...

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XLP Publishes Web Scraping and Data Aggregation Technology Report

XLP Strategy Research Group announces the release of a technology report, entitled “The Data Scraping Marketplace.” The report describes the rapidly growing marketplace for software known as “data scrapers” aka "web scrapers" which are capable of taking unstructured data from websites and converting it into structured data output...

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XLP Publishes 2015-2016 Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Report

XLP Strategy’s Research Group is pleased to announce the release of the first annual cryptocurrency and blockchain technology report, entitled “Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Landscape.” The report reflects increased interest in the state of software, hardware, and algorithmic technologies driving tools, open source software, and technology companies. The...

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