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Private Equity Firms Fare Better in Tough Times

February 23, 2009

Private equity firms are better able to make the difficult choices necessary in a downturn, such as shutting down poorly performing businesses. That’s according to a report by the World Economic Forum, as reported in the Financial Times. The report was based on a study of thousands of companies from 1980 through 2005. The report […]

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Job Growth Depends on this Type of Venture Capital

February 19, 2009

Here’s an eye-opening fact from Seattle-based website, crosscut.com. America’s Fortune 500 companies, in the aggregate, creating nearly zero net new jobs over the past 30 years. According to most experts, start-up companies generate many more new jobs, proportionally, than the rest of the private sector. This fact was confirmed by a January, 2009 report issue […]

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Private Equity Industry Brushing Up Its Image

February 17, 2009

The Private Equity Council, an advocacy group made up of 13 of the largest buyout firms, is adopting a new set of guidelines for an industry tarnished by recent Wall Street excesses. The new guidelines cover environmental, health, safety, labor, governance and social issues. Among the highlights of the 9 new guidelines are industry commitments […]

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Why Venture Capital Will Lead the Recovery

February 5, 2009

You probably wouldn’t expect a pro-business tome from the left-leaning Huffington Post. But Eric Hippeau delivers just that in a recent article on why both government and institutions should be pouring more money into the venture capital industry, not less. Full disclosure: Hippeau is a managing partner at venture capital fund Softbank Capital, and both […]

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Venture Capitalists Forced to Make Hard Choices

January 29, 2009

The Wall Street Journal reports that the financial crisis is forcing many VC funds to focus on their best investments, and turn off the taps on their less-promising start-ups. Some VC firms, such as Claremont Creek Ventures in California, are giving “A, B or C” grades to their companies’ performance to help them decide whether […]

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Venture Capital Drives the Growth of New Businesses

January 22, 2009

Venture capital remains a critical ingredient for the growth of new businesses, according to a recent survey by the Monitor Group, one of the world’s leading advisory and consulting firms. The firm just released its “Path to Prosperity: Promoting Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century” report that surveyed entrepreneurs in 22 countries to determine attitudes required […]

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Venture Capital-Funded Startups Lead to Economic Growth

January 15, 2009

Rather than taking a shotgun approach and trying to jump-start any kind of new business, the incoming Obama administration should focus on the type of start-ups that really have a positive economic effect. That’s the argument put forth by Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University and the author of “The […]

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Scarcity of IPOs Has Venture Capitalists Concerned

January 1, 2009

There was just one initial public offering (IPO) in Silicon Valley in 2008, the fewest in more than two decades, and shockingly lower than the 28 IPOs a year on average since 1985. IPOs have all but disappeared from the Valley, according to the Mercury News. It’s a disturbing trend because IPOs are a staple […]

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Reverse Brain Drain Could Lead to a Private Equity Boom Overseas

December 18, 2008

U.S. immigration policies and the financial crisis are pushing many of the best-educated and successful minds in finance back to their home countries of India and China, reports the Globe and Mail. A new large-scale study of 1,200 Indian and Chinese returnees that’s due out next month shows the majority of those returning home have […]

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Signs of Life in Venture Capital

December 11, 2008

Reports from the AlwaysOn Venture Summit held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay in Silicon Valley this past week revealed a few reasons for optimism amid the overwhelmingly gloomy economic picture. True, most start-ups are hunkering down, conserving capital and trying to innovate their way out of this crisis. Experts at the […]

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