Matt Linn, the Chief Operating Officer at Thread, carved out a few minutes to chat that one strategic pillar for Thread is to expand overseas. We met up at the recent Thread AI Service Unleashed Live event in Seattle. He is also to co-founder of Thread. 

Before yesterday’s MSP business coach became an overnight MSP M&A expert, there was Revenue Rocket. Best known to me as an early prominent supporter of Redmond Channel Partner (RCP) magazine, it’s a firm that was here yesterday, today and tomorrow in our space – 

He’s always been “One To Watch” from the Silicon Valley to red hot Nashville. From Fortinet to Coro. From mail room (I’m kinda kidding but there is truth to humor) to CEO. Sykora is now 18-months in role as the CEO at Coro and we were overdue for a chat but understandably he’s a busy man. This dude has “street cred” having carried the bag as an MSP as the founder of InterSpace Computers. Dets: “Founded, built & sold a Cloud-based technology company specializing in Outsourced IT Provider Specializing in Virtualization and Thin client Applications with +100% YoY growth & $10M annual revenues” That 12+ year run was predictive of where he is today.

I recently joined Craig Fulton, M&A Advisor at Evergreen for a visit that is literally an evergreen story with it’s story oif MSP M&A stability and longevity. This is a hot listen in a super hot area of the MSP ecosystem.

But first, a bit about Fulton.

 “Passionate Leader * Driven Problem Solver * Inspiring Story Teller. As Advisor, Evergreen Services Group, Craig Fulton aims to help MSP’s succeed in growing their businesses and exceed their goals. He credits his 30 years in the technology sector,

Always a pleasure to meet up with Michelle Accardi, CEO of Liongard. Been a hot minute since we spoke and this is an update for the thriving ISV in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) Managed Services Space (MSP). Whole bunches of change goin’ on since we last did a podcast in November 2023 at ConnectWise as she celebrated one year in the CEO role (see the link to this interview in the Resources section at the bottom).

I admit I needed to reconnect with Auvik again. I tracked ‘em closely in the late 2010-teens up to the pandemic and still regret missing its pre-pandemic three-day conference in Santa Barbara, CA (which is even more pleasant then lovely San Diego where I conducted this interview at the recent GTIA ChannelCon event). I had a hot moment with Auvik a couple years ago at Connectwise IT Natiion that you can revisit HERE.   My last two recent interactions with Auvik had my spidey senses got  going that something was up. It’s presence is much more active now than it was for a couple years.

Caught a few mins with Mark Alayev, Chief of Magic and Co-Founder of Thread at its recent Fall conference in Seattle at the Museum of Pop (MoPop) next to the Space Needle at the Seattle Center. Much more on the vent later but, hurry, let’s get goin’ as this New Yorkers takes steps two at a time. So hang on fast.

Let’s set the table: from his keynote the prior evening, my brain was frickin full.

Project management is an evergreen in any industry and Managed Services Providers are no different. Wim Kerkhoff, the CEO of Top>Left, recently talked his MSP project management solution that I can honestly say has been brought to market but Wim and his team (MSPs). And these fellas are Canadians so you know they are COOL! Homebase is outside Vancouver BC in Chilliwack.

We talk about how he got into tech as a young kid at 13yo.

Let’s set the table. We both go back to the good old days. We’ve known each other 15+ years (it goes quick youngins) starting with the Windows Small Business Server era (SBS). Dale got involved with Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP) in early 2010. ”The business of being a Managed Services Provider (MSP) in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) space changes constantly so its good to be an entrepreneur.” Cooper shared.