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A Year into Italian Crowdfunding: How is it Looking?

September 22, 2014

It’s been a year since Italian policymakers loosened bureaucratic control over the start-up world. How have things gone during the first year of Italy’s crowdfunding? Background of Italy’s Crowdfunding As some history, Italian politicians are the first in the world to allow retail equity crowdfunding, with “no” limits on investment options. The “no” limits statement […]

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The Universities of Top VC-Backed Entrepreneurs

September 8, 2014

Pitchbook is out with their annual review of which universities are producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs. Where would you guess these entrepreneurs attended school? On top of the 2014 list are entrepreneurs out of Stanford at $3.52 billion. In second place is Harvard at $3.24 billion. Rounding out the top ten are the Indian Institute […]

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The Performance of the Economy by President

August 25, 2014

Private equity professionals spend a good part of their day looking at balance sheet figures. Here’s a break from the traditional look at financial numbers and instead a focus on how the economy has performed over the past 60 years’ – by each U.S. president. The five measures are Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Employment, Inflation, […]

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Should PE Professionals be Nervous When Looking at the Pace in Mergers and Acquisitions Volume?

August 11, 2014

In the mergers and acquisitions world (M&A), 2014 is off to an incredible start. We’ve seen Valeant’s $46 billion proposal for Allergan (April 22). About a month later, May 18, we saw AT&T acquire DirectTV . On June 15, Medtronic acquired Covidien in a deal worth about $43 billion. Earlier in the year we digested Comcast’s […]

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How has Financial Employment Performed by President?

July 28, 2014

Pretty much everyone knows the western world is experiencing one of the worst recoveries on record. This is quite evident when looking at the incredibly long time it took for employment to get back to where it was in 2008, by the tentative growth in GDP, by the weakness in wage inflation, by the stubbornly […]

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Venture Capital Through the Recent Recovery

July 14, 2014

Anyone who follows the private equity/venture capital world knows that political entities attempt to recruit business startups. Over the past few years, leaders in various areas, including New York, Utah, and other traditionally less important areas, have promoted the growth of their startup scene – and their efforts are being rewarded. What Do the Numbers […]

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The End of American Economic Dominance. Will American Finance Follow Suit?

June 30, 2014

Just about everyone that follows politics and economics knows that businesses in the United States dominated the world economy in the 1980s and 1990s. Really, American-based businesses have been king of the business world since World War II. That dominance has loudly come to an end. Unsurprisingly, the end of American dominance of the world’s […]

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Why Are Venture Capitalists So Interested in Education?

June 16, 2014

Innovation in the education area may have a bright future after all, at least if one judges it by the exponential growth in venture capital interest. Overall, data out of Pitchbook indicate strong growth in deal activity and the total invested capital in U.S.-based education startups over the past ten years. Total invested capital has grown […]

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How Has Financial Employment Performed Over the Past 11 Business Cycles?

May 19, 2014

Most everyone has seen the following chart of employment change from peak to peak for the past 11 business cycles. (Some analysts choose to ignore the 1943 recession for shock reasons, essentially making 2008 look the least appealing of them all.) The label for each line represents the year in which the recession started; the vertical […]

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The Story Liberals Don’t Want You to Hear

May 5, 2014

Since the onset of the economic crisis in late 2007, liberals and conservatives (and economists with like-minded leanings) have been ferociously debating two issues – inflation and debt. On inflation, liberals generally argue that inflation wasn’t an issue. By arguing such, liberals were able to claim that the best way to deal with the economic […]

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