What a Venture Capital Investor Worries About

March 21, 2011

Roger Ehrenberg, founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, recently penned a first-person account of what keeps venture capital investors like himself up at night. It’s a good primer for anyone interested in a venture capital job. His firm, IA Ventures funds early-stage companies that focus on the development of innovative tools, technologies and analytics for […]

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Will Dodd-Frank Forever Change Private Equity?

March 16, 2011

The Dodd-Frank Bill is set in motion to transform the money industry in July 2011. Meanwhile, there is plenty of time for private equity firms and their advisers to lobby and petition Congress to ensure the current business model is not completely disrupted. As members of the private equity industry, we should protect the capital […]

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Private Equity Job Frenzy Is Starting Even Earlier

March 14, 2011

The recruiting frenzy for private equity stars is heating up, but not for top executives pulling in multi-million dollar paychecks. Instead, the world’s top private equity firms are pulling out all the stops to recruit the best and brightest young analysts from leading investment banks. And instead of beginning their annual recruitment drive in the […]

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Focus Your Venture Capital Job Search Here

March 7, 2011

Venture capital investment is springing back to life, and one industry insider has identified several areas that entrepreneurs should focus on if they want to attract funding. But given the fact that seed-stage and early-stage venture capital will be flowing to these spaces, it might make sense to target them with your venture capital job […]

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Private Equity Dealmaking May Be Downsizing

February 28, 2011

The barbarians are no longer at the gates, or at least at the gates of the largest companies in the U.S. Fortune reports that today’s big private equity managers may be unable to afford dozens of large companies that were once within their reach. The article traces back four years to when Fortune put Blackstone CEO […]

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Finding That Entry-Level Venture Capital Job

February 21, 2011

Adam Ludwin, an associate with RRE Ventures in New York City, recently penned perhaps the most practical short guide to landing a lower-level job in venture capital. Be forewarned: there are no shortcuts and the journey may seem arduous to all but the most highly motivated candidates, according to his reprinted article in Fortune. But […]

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More Effective Networking for Private Equity Jobs

February 14, 2011

Those who succeed in landing private equity jobs will often say that networking helped them uncover job opportunities and get their foot in the door. But many professionals still do not see the kind of results from their networking efforts, both in-person and online, that they’d like to. So says C.J. Hayden, a business coach, […]

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Importing Silicon Valley-style Venture Capital Expertise

February 7, 2011

The Chicago high tech community has a new venture capital incubator that’s aiming to help the Second City attract the next generation of technology success stories and venture capital jobs. The “Plug and Play Tech Center” is looking for up to 100,000 square feet of space in downtown Chicago, and up to $100 million in […]

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A Look at Private Equity in 2011

January 31, 2011

Seeking Alpha offered a few highlights from the recent Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Outlook Conference, held in New York City on January 25th. Among the bright spots is the outlook for entrepreneurs and the private equity professionals who invest in them. Angel investors, venture capital firms and big tech firms are “flush with cash” […]

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A Twist on the Traditional Venture Capital Job

January 24, 2011

You may not immediately think of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz as venture capitalists. But the two have raised nearly a billion dollars since starting their venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, roughly 18 months ago. Of course it helps that both have fantastically successful track records as tech entrepreneurs. Andreessen co-founded Netscape, and later hired […]

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