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Private Equity Leaders Foresee Economic Recovery

November 27, 2008

Maybe it’s finally time to start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, more than half of private equity leaders surveyed recently by Celerant Consulting felt that an economic recovery is no more than 18 months away. In a survey of more than 220 senior executives across Europe and the United […]

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Why The Venture Capital Model Is Broken

November 17, 2008

There’s a buzz in the blogsphere about Adeo Ressi’s recent treatise on why the venture capital model is finally broken. Ressi is founder of The Funded, a website that lets people rate venture capitalists. His musings about the current state of the VC model have hit a number of blogs and online publications, including The […]

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No Dotcom Crash for Venture Capital

November 3, 2008

The economic downturn may actually be good for technology ventures, and there are reasons we won’t see a repeat of the crash of 2001, according to the industry website techradar.com. The situation today is very different from the tech bubble, when investors threw money at anything with .com without a sensible business model to back […]

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Shanghai Considers Tax Breaks to Lure Private Equity

October 30, 2008

A senior government official announced Friday that Shanghai is looking at scrapping its 20 percent capital gains tax on hedge funds and using other incentives to lure more venture capital and private equity to the city. Fang Xinghai, director-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government’s Financial Services Office, said it would be “wrong” to slow the […]

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Private Equity Jobs in a Post Meltdown World

October 23, 2008

Jack Perkowski, author of Managing the Dragon, and one of the leading experts on doing business in China, offered a snapshot of what’s ahead for private equity investing around the world on his website recently. Perkowski has just returned from the SuperReturn Middle East 2008 Conference in Dubai, an elite gathering of 500 private equity […]

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Venture Capitalists Tell Startups to Conserve Capital

October 21, 2008

Venture capitalists have started warning their portfolio companies to watch every dollar since additional capital will be much harder to come by, according to an article in the Boston Business Journal. In addition, VCs are advising startups to trim overhead and even “mothball” their operations – reducing a company to its core management team and […]

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Private Equity Can Help Solve Crisis

October 16, 2008

The best practices of private equity, such as focusing on shareholder value, improving companies and balancing risks and rewards, can be part of the solution to the current global liquidity crisis, says a partner in the private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Perry Golkin was the keynote speaker at the Global Private Equity […]

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What the Future Holds for Venture Capital Jobs

October 14, 2008

Over a 10-year time horizon, venture capital firms returned an average of nearly 33%, compared to a paltry 3.5% for the S&P 500 index. But those returns include 1999 and 2000, the last few really good years for venture capital, according to an article in Business Week. Moving forward, the 1-, 3- and 5-year returns […]

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VC Exits Slow but Investment Continues

October 6, 2008

Venture capital-backed IPOs have slowed to a crawl, but VC firms are still investing and raising funds at a steady pace, according to a new study published by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The report, titled “The Exit Slowdown and the New Venture Capital Landscape,” notes that VC-backed IPOs are at a 30-year low, with Q2 2008 marking […]

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