Blurring Private Equity and Venture Capital Distinctions

June 24, 2013

Most financial industry professionals would consider private equity and venture capital firms as competitors or at least semi-competitors. On the one hand, both types of firms are after a fixed amount of investor cash.  In this sense, private equity and venture capital firms are competitors after the same color of cash.  Firms within their respective […]

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Does Private Equity Help or Hurt the Infobesity Problem?

June 17, 2013

Does what private equity professionals do help or hurt the infobesity problem?  Is there an infobesity problem? First some background. Over the past decade or so, the amount of digital and analog information in the world has grown at an exponential rate.  One estimate of the total amount of information in the world is about […]

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Private Equity and Venture Capital IPO Sentiment

June 10, 2013

As every reader of this article knows, the private equity and venture capital industries are largely affected by business cycles and the associated sentiments.  What does Pitchbook’s recently released private equity and venture capital IPO sentiment survey tell us?  Here are participants’ answers to the six questions of the market conditions survey. IPO Filings, Pricings, […]

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A Private Equity Offer for Apple?

June 3, 2013

With Dell considering a move towards going private and BMC being taken private by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Partners, would this open the door to even more gigantic moves, such as Apple Inc. employing the services of the private equity industry? Consider the following quote: “Any company with cash on its balance sheet, little […]

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Who Leads the World in Private Equity Crowdfunding

May 27, 2013

Private equity crowdfunding is currently the new wave in angel capital and small scale private equity investing, with the appearance of such firms as CircleUp, MicroVentures, and GOOD looking to address what they consider to be inefficiencies in the matching of smaller scale investors with capital-seeking entrepreneurs. With crowdfunding growing at breakneck speed (see chart […]

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Private Equity Crowdfunding

May 20, 2013

If you are in any way involved in the angel side of private equity investing, you’re likely well aware of the debate regarding the usefulness of crowdfunding, and specifically private equity crowdfunding.  Crowdfunding exists because there is a general void in the marketplace between what angel investors are willing to, and able to, fund and […]

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The Beauty of This Chart if You Are a True Private Equity Believer

May 13, 2013

If you’re a true private equity believer, the following chart has got to be beautiful. The figure shows the most recent GDP figures by the three broad expenditure categories (which, excludes net exports): consumption, private domestic investment, and government expenditure. In the political budgeting realm, there is no bigger issue than the debate over the […]

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Q2 Private Equity Conditions

May 6, 2013

Pitchbook has released its Q2 2013 private equity conditions report.  The report covers investment trends by deal size, industry, and region. Overall, as measured by the number of deals and size of deals, PE deal making slowed down in the first quarter of 2013. The number of deals declined by 26 percent, from 500 in […]

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Prioritization of Private Equity

April 22, 2013

On March 5, 2013, the U.S. stock markets posted their highest marks since 2008’s losses, marking the numerical return of investment to its levels prior to the recent recession. One would think that the same activity of private equity is returning to previous levels as well, and a number of events seem to support that theory. […]

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Are Zombie Private Equity Funds a Problem?

April 15, 2013

Zombie private equity funds represent investment funds where money is tied up for years, with the manager having little to no profitable investment prospects, yet managers are still imposing fees on the tied up money. According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 10,000 or so private equity funds founded in the past decade, about […]

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