Which President Was the Best for Venture Capital?

June 14, 2016

It’s presidential election season.  What better time than now to ask which president since 1985 has seen the strongest venture capital performance during his administration? (Note: the choice of 1985 is based purely on availability of reliable data.  If further historical were readily available, it would have been included in this article.) Within this period are […]

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Can You Guess the Top 10 Venture Investors and Accelerators?

May 30, 2016

If there’s anything the venture capital and private equity world is for sure, it’s that at the sectors are competitive, uber competitive. Can you guess which entities come out as the most active?  Here’s a look. Accelerators First, a look at the top accelerators.  The first graph is a look at the top 10 accelerators since […]

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What Does the Recent IPO Weakness Mean for 2016 Bonus Pay?

May 16, 2016

Last year was a relatively rough year for IPOs.  According to Renaissance Capital, IPOs in 2015 were down over 30% from their 2014 level. The start of 2016 doesn’t appear to be offering any sort of relief anytime soon.  The IPO market is in a deep freeze. The question here is – what does the […]

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Looking at the Private Equity Compensation Picture

May 3, 2016

Every now and then (perhaps more often if you work in the financial industry), one should take a look at the compensation picture and compare how one is doing to others working in the same universe. Each year, Job Search Digest conducts a comprehensive survey of private equity and venture capital professionals to reveal insights into […]

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SEC Thinks Its Valuations Are Better than Private Equity Professionals’

April 25, 2016

If you pay fairly close attention to financial regulation news, one topic showed up frequently last week.  The topic – private equity and venture capital valuations and the SEC’s chair Mary Joe White’s belief that valuations may be approaching bubble territory. Her comment, while speaking at Stanford University: “In the unicorn context, there is a […]

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CEO Pay: Does the Financial Industry Win?

March 21, 2016

There is perhaps no more contentious issue that compensation.  The contentiousness becomes even more heated when discussing CEO pay. Question – which industry has the highest paid CEOs? Here’s a look at average CEO pay and CEO pay growth by industry according to recently released figures by Pitchbook. Before looking, which industry would you guess wins?  Finance?  […]

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Was 2015 the Bonus Peak or Will 2016 Surpass It?

March 7, 2016

In the private equity and venture capital world, as with most any other industries, money talks.  More so than in most other industries, in the private equity and venture capital industries, money not only talks, but often controls the conversation. The current discussion point here is – can 2016 bonus pay beat what appears to […]

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The Value of Human Intelligence in Private Equity

February 22, 2016

“Knowledge of the spirit world is to be obtained by divination; information in natural science may be sought by inductive reasoning; the laws of the universe can be verified by mathematical calculation: but the dispositions of an enemy are ascertainable through spies and spies alone.” —The Art of War – Sun Tzu – 500 BC Any […]

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How Did Venture Capital Perform in 2015?

February 8, 2016

The 2015 year is now a month behind us.  How did venture capital do in 2015?  Here’s a look. Total Capital Invested The first look is venture capital invested and number of rounds closed by year. Interestingly, on a total volume basis, 2015 was a banner year for total capital invested.  Total capital invested reached […]

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Looks Like Base Salary Is Taking a Larger Bite of the Compensation Pie

January 25, 2016

Two interesting movements occurred in the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics’ release of employee compensation in the finance and insurance industries. First is the percentage of total compensation devoted towards wages and salaries and second, average compensation per hour. Which direction would you guess the two are heading?  Are wages and salaries eating up a […]

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