By: Chris Weingartner While the MSP industry is no stranger to seismic shifts, Broadcom’s $69 BILLION acquisition of VMware in November 2023 has left managed service providers reeling from price increases and from a transition away from the historical perpetual licensing model to a subscription model with many standalone options no longer being offered. MSPs…
By: Wesley Legg As healthy companies grow, they generally see margins expand as fixed costs are diluted with increased sales or as the company gains pricing power. Therefore, compressing margins can be a leading indicator of issues arising within a business. Perhaps a business has not invested sufficiently in R&D, so their technology is becoming obsolete….
By Chris Weingartner For many owners, deciding to sell their business is one of the biggest decisions they’ll make in their lifetime, and the company’s value represents the amassing of their life’s work. Successfully selling the business at a premium price is crucial for owners to finance their dreams or fund their retirement. Finding the…
Founders recently hosted the 2nd annual Heritage Forum Couples Event at the beautiful Pursell Farms in Sylacauga, Alabama. This 3-day retreat is a unique opportunity for high-capacity leaders and their spouses to engage in teaching sessions, small group discussions, fireside chats, casual socializing, recreation, and 5-star meals all centered around one theme: living a purposeful life…
By: Evan Klisares We just returned from the first renewable conference of the year, InterSolar, in San Diego. Booths at the conference were down from ~900 in 2023 to ~500 in 2024, and as one conference-goer noted to me on the floor, they should have renamed this conference the “Times-Are-Tough” show – a nod to…
This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Founders team invested in the local community by working at Cornerstone Elementary School to improve the facilities for the children who attend. Cornerstone is a kindergarten through 8th grade school with over 220 students in downtown Birmingham. A bi-annual tradition, Founders staff spends one Saturday in July and…