Author Archives: Mike O'Hara

Collaborations are nothing new in the world of consumer products. In 2021, innovative ice cream brand (and 2019 presenter at the Consensus Great Brands Show) Van Leeuwen teamed up with Kraft to develop and market the shockingly successful Kraft Macaroni & Cheese French ice cream.  In 2017, luxury stalwart Louis Vuitton’s profit skyrocketed on the […]

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We are excitedly counting down the months and weeks until the return of the Consensus Great Brands Show (CGBS), which will take place September 13th, at the New York Times TimesCenter in Manhattan (CGBS Website). CGBS is returning for the 10th time, after a pause for COVID, and we are bringing the show back bigger and […]

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By now, most people in our industry have spent some time thinking about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second largest U.S. bank (measured by assets) to fail in history. Depositors, mostly venture-backed companies, sought to withdraw $42 billion on March 9 alone, triggering a run on the bank every bit as dramatic as […]

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In his popular book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari states that “from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same time, to several human species.”  Harari says the fossil record shows that our species coexisted with the likes of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, Homo soloensis, Homo […]

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Most finance professionals agree that nothing beats the discounted cash flow (DCF) method for valuing a business. This is because the method is based on projected cash generation and does not rely on comp sets that can often be not-so-comparable.  However, the most glaring flaw in DCF models can be best described by the phrase […]

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