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Venture Capital Firms Taking on the Role of Angel

July 26, 2010

Venture capital firms want a piece of the angel investors’ lunch. A growing number of established venture capital firms are investing smaller amounts in early-stage companies, in an effort to “seed” more successful start-ups. Dow Jones reports that many are investing in consumer Internet and software-as-service start-ups, since many of these types of companies are […]

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State of the Private Equity Industry

July 22, 2010

Fundraising efforts for the private equity sector are up 26% in the first half of 2010 versus a year ago. Does this mean the industry is storming back to where it was before? Not so fast, says David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. Rubenstein was interviewed on-air recently by CNBC during […]

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Private Equity Dealmaking Picks Up, But Will It Lead to Jobs?

July 5, 2010

Domestic LBO activity, which dropped to a low of $10.4 billion early in 2009, has rebounded and will surpass $37 billion for the first half of this year, according to an article in The Deal, using data from research firm Dealogic. Factors such as the end of the recession, a recovery in corporate earnings and […]

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Good News, Bad News for Private Equity Compensation

May 24, 2010

Private equity and venture capitals firms appear to have dodged one bullet this past week, while being winged by another. The final versions of the House and Senate financial reform bills both exempt private equity and venture capital firms from having to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will help them avoid the […]

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Private Equity Needs a Better Image

March 29, 2010

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein was in Toronto this past week and was a speaker at a private equity symposium there. As expected, he talked about his firm’s increasing presence China. But he also outlined Carlyle’s other major worldwide priority: helping to rebuild private equity’s tattered reputation. Private equity has been lumped together with investment […]

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Looking More Flexibility in the Venture Capital Model

March 22, 2010

Large institutional investors are interested in expanding their participation in venture capital, but are a little gun-shy after the recent credit crisis. And a bit more flexibility in the traditional VC investment model would help. That’s the word from JobSearchDigest subscriber Peter Leonardi, Ph.D., MBA, and a Director at Five Prime Advisors LLC in New […]

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Top 10 MBA Schools Based on Value

March 18, 2010

Every year potential and current MBA students and Admissions departments across the country await the annual MBA School rankings. We took a look at this year’s MBA ranking from FT.com and put a twist on the data. Yes, of course, when you look at the “top” schools, the usual suspects are there (Harvard, Wharton, Stanford). […]

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The Shape of Today’s Venture Capital Industry

March 8, 2010

To get a quick snapshot of the venture capital sector right now, check out “Business Exits in the Current Economic Environment.” It’s a summary of a panel discussion sponsored recently by the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program. Wharton management professor Raphael (Raffi) Amit highlighted the major shifts in the sector. No surprise in the steep decline in […]

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Carlyle Boss Sees Private Equity Opportunities

December 21, 2009

The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, is looking to invest roughly $5 billion in 2010 in businesses across the globe. However, in an interview with the TimesOnline, Bill Conway, one of Carlyle’s founders and as current Chief Investment Officer, noted the uncertainty facing private equity investors in the year ahead. […]

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Changes Needed for Venture Capital Compensation

November 23, 2009

No less than the president and the CEO of the noted Kaufman Foundation, the $1.8 billion endowment fund that promotes entrepreneurship, are saying that the current venture capital compensation model is broken. In an article in Business Week, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley say the prominence of American venture capital has taken a tumble from […]

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