There’s someone else who should be included in a technical due diligence assessment.

Someone other than the engineers, the technicians, the management team, the  technical advisers, the industry veterans…

This person is often completely overlooked, but he or she will give a more impartial view of the product, often understanding its limitations better than the engineers who created it. And, ultimately, this person has a greater influence over a product’s success or failure.

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Here’s a sobering thought for any private equity investor: losing a data centre is usually catastrophic.

In 2002, 93% of companies that lost their data centers to a disaster for more than 9 days filed for bankruptcy within a year*.

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