Demystifying Technology by the MacLaurin Group

Have you noticed unusual activity in the M&A market recently?

Learn how the market has changed and which topics we now need to focus on as a result. Tune into our recent podcast discussing the 2021 Deal Points Study with Lisa Hedrick.

Lisa, a partner with Hirschler law firm, is not only an M&A attorney but also leads one of the working groups responsible for the American Bar Association’s Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Study.

You might remember hearing Lisa on our podcast at the beginning of 2020. During that time, it was a seller-friendly market.

What has changed since last we talked?

Would it surprise you to know the main currency in PE in addition to money is human capital? Curious what can be a deal breaker for both PE firm and portfolio?

Listen to our CEO, and best selling author of the private equity book “Courage to Lose Sight of Shore”, Kelley Powell and Leon Brujis, Partner of Palladium Equity Partners discuss what backing a successful entrepreneur looks like.

It’s that time of the year again. Curious to learn more about the new surge of developers and how that affects technology?

Jim Milbery of ParkerGale joins Alan, Ryan and Cormac for another year of discussion around the new data results from Stack Overflow’s 2021 Developer Survey.

A few key takeaways from this discussion…

💡 An increase in professional developers in the self-employed/independent contractors category

💡 JavaScript continues its streak as the most commonly used programming language, but new kids are coming into the block

💡 While AWS continues to be the most used cloud platform, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are making in roads

Every developer should have this in their toolbox. DbSchema, a database designer, gives a visual representation of your database.

A database represents not only raw data, but the relationship between that data. DbSchema articulates this relationship in a visual and accessible manner that breaths fresh life into usually dull diagrams.

This makes it easier for everyone, especially non-developers, to comprehend and contribute to what is seen as many outside, as a dark art.

Thank you Dragos Pruteanu for creating a vital piece of software. It was great having you on the podcast.

🎙 Watch here - https://youtu.be/mLCtAu7Q0iY

👉 Check out this podcast on Medium - https://medium.com/maclaurin-group/dbschema-podcast-37-9f7e3fa7311e

Cybersecurity is not just about protecting the data. It is also making sure that your core systems are readily available at all times.

Alan and Jim set US/Canada relations back 200 years while discussing the evolving state of cybersecurity with Dom and Christian of Cyber SC.

Spoiler, this is no longer the domain of larger corporations.

Our friends from north of the border discuss the importance of cybersecurity due diligence during the PE deal process, cybersecurity roadmap creation and fulfillment, the security crutches that companies lean on to their own detriment, and outsourced cybersecurity leadership.

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Are you a sucker for a good technology survey? We are too! Listen to hear what surprised us in our yearly review of the Stack Overflow developer survey. 

Ryan and Alan are joined by industry expert, Partner of ParkerGale and fellow podcaster of the Private Equity Funcast,  Jim Milbery.

It scales with you, is easily manageable, and has incredible recovery capabilities, saving you time, money, and worry -- Alan and Ryan discuss Aurora, the MySQL and Postgres compatible database-as-a-service from Amazon AWS which has done wonders for managing and scaling databases in production.

Legacy is something that you leave behind with the expectation that you are paving a path for the success of others. So why do we fear the word ‘legacy’ when referring to code?

Jim Headley sits down with Andrea Goulet of Corgibytes who explains that legacy code is not always something to fear, but something that can be built upon and improved.

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Would you like to get an insider’s view of the current M&A seller’s market? Lisa Hedrick, Partner at Hirschler and Issue Group Leader for the American Bar Association’s biannual “Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study”, provides valuable insight into this extensive report’s most significant acquisition trends.

Discover what this could mean for your business or portfolio companies.

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Is it a painful, manual, time consuming, or non-existent process for your IT team to trace a problem back to its source?

In this podcast, Alan and Ryan discuss the importance of good logging practices and outline three litmus tests to evaluate if your enterprise logging system is heading in the right direction.