PERSPECTIVES

Notes and analyses published when we have something to say.

Once a month, on concrete topics: entrepreneurship, capital, succession, liquidity, exit, governance.

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  • 2026
    7 min read
    Succession: eighteen months is rarely enough. Here's why

    370,000 companies to be sold by 2030, 130,000 expected buyers. What buyers see, what sellers underestimate, and the five workstreams of serious preparation.

  • 2026
    4 min read
    Succession: what the Bpifrance letter doesn't say

    There's what the letter says, and there's what it doesn't say: how much you'll actually pocket, once you factor in the 31.4% PFU, the tightened apport-cession rule and risk discounts.

  • 2026
    5 min read
    Selling in eighteen months: what to do today

    A sale isn't decided in six months. It's prepared 18 to 36 months in advance. Five concrete workstreams to build a trajectory sellable at the price it deserves.

  • 2026
    6 min read
    A successful exit only happens once

    You spent fifteen years building your company. Its sale, however, will be decided in a few months — and you won't get a second try.