Xconomy
AUGUST 15, 2018
Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 31, 2017
The San Francisco firm, which also issues reports and advocates for the growing sector at the intersection of health, data science, and mobile communication, says it surveyed more than 300 women for its annual gender diversity report. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. how can you evaluate a good sales person? How much to compensate them?
Xconomy
JUNE 9, 2017
With this week’s buyout of GreatCall , the Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR just placed a big bet that healthtech for the aging wave of baby boomers will be a big business. A key part of this strategy are call centers (GreatCall CEO David Inns insists on calling them “caring centers”), where trained agents.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 12, 2010
In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. He’s fine with equity provided it’s cheap to paper it legally. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
GreatCall was acquired by Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) earlier this year from private equity firm GTCR. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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