WEEKLY THOUGHTS

Here is something that caught our eye this week: Service Provider Nirvana We have been thinking recently about how to effectively select service providers. As small businesses, our portfolio companies (and Chenmark itself) rely greatly on third-parties to provide insight on a variety of topics including benefits administration, digital marketing, workers comp, legal matters, and equipment leasing, among others. Call us naive, but in our ideal world — Chenmark Service Provider Nirvana — we would form a small number of long-term arrangements with vendors that act like trusted partners who proactively highlight issues and work with us to manage problems