Expert thinking on productivity, intangible asset valuation, growth strategy, and building more valuable businesses.
Media and entertainment companies have been pledging copyrights as loan collateral since the early days of Hollywood studio finance. But the explosion of streaming, the globalisation of content markets, and the growing value of franchise IP have created a far richer intangible asset landscape than traditional film-slate financing exploits.
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How M&A transactions actually close — cap table waterfalls, locked box vs completion accounts, BADR tax relief, escrow mechanics, and planning for life after exit.
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From startup to scale-up — operating leverage, R&D capitalisation under IAS 38, management reporting, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, and EMI share option schemes.
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The 12–18 months before exit define how much value you capture — data room preparation, normalised EBITDA, quality of earnings reports, earn-outs, and intangible asset documentation.
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The make-or-break stage for startups — measuring product-market fit, tracking MRR and ARR, understanding churn and NRR, SEIS/EIS setup, and equity incentive schemes.
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VCs want proof your growth engine works — LTV, CAC, unit economics, the Rule of 40, burn rate and runway calculations, and how board composition changes at Series A.
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Revenue expansion, enterprise sales, and complex term sheets — NRR, GRR, liquidation preferences, anti-dilution protection, and the SaaS metrics that unlock Series B funding.
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The scorecard PE buyers use to assess technology teams in due diligence — from key person risk to engineering culture and technical debt.
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The 2025 revision to the System of National Accounts represents genuine progress in measuring intangible assets. But the gap between what national statistics capture and what actually drives productivity in advanced economies remains wide. Here is what SNA 2025 fixes, what it does not, and why the remaining gaps matter for policy.
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A step-by-step guide to the Opagio Intangible Asset Valuator — covering 7 asset categories, 35 asset types, and 6 valuation methods. Learn how to identify, assess, and value the intangible assets that drive your company's worth.
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A competency framework for building AI-ready engineering teams, drawn from 15 years scaling from 12 to 250 engineers at IG Group.
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Before you can grow faster, you need to understand the anatomy of your existing growth. The Opagio Growth Platform uses your historic financial data to decompose productivity into its component drivers — revealing where value is being created and where investment is being wasted.
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