Start the Year Off Right with These Private Equity Job Search Tips

January 4, 2010

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to kick your job hunting activities into high gear. If you’ve been stuck in a rut, here are a few ways to get “unstuck” with your search. From the Star Tribune in Minneapolis comes this tidbit: ask a half-dozen of the most successful people in […]

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Cautious Optimism for 2010 Venture Capital Jobs

December 27, 2009

The National Venture Capital Association has released Venture View 2010, its annual survey of more than 325 venture capitalists across the U.S. Among the findings: most respondents predict slightly more dollars going into more companies in 2010. But the prognosis for the entire asset class is a gradual pullback in size, over the next five […]

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Carlyle Boss Sees Private Equity Opportunities

December 21, 2009

The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, is looking to invest roughly $5 billion in 2010 in businesses across the globe. However, in an interview with the TimesOnline, Bill Conway, one of Carlyle’s founders and as current Chief Investment Officer, noted the uncertainty facing private equity investors in the year ahead. […]

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Private Equity Resumes – Let’s Make a Deal

December 15, 2009

Having an MBA from a top tier school and experience working for an investment bank is not required but definitely recommended for entry into a private equity firm. In fact, last year the Private Equity Compensation Report revealed that about one half of the participants did not have an MBA and there was only a […]

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Focus Your Venture Capital Job Search Here

December 14, 2009

Green ventures, web technology and health care. Those are the most attractive sectors for venture capital projects moving forward, according to Terry McGuire, co-founder and general partner of Polaris Venture Partners and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). New social media ventures and certain aspects of the consumer market are also growing, according […]

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Interviewing for a Private Equity Job

December 7, 2009

If you think getting a job at Google is tough, try surviving the interview process at a top private equity firm. One banking analyst who went through the process at megafirms KKR (Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts) and TPG (Texas Pacific Group), says compared to those interviews, a Google job interview is a walk in the […]

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More Optimism for Venture Capital Jobs

November 30, 2009

There is more optimism in Silicon Valley these days as a modest rebound in venture funding hints that the tech sector may be a leading indicator of economic recovery. Mercury News reports that Bay Area start-ups landed nearly 50 percent of venture capital dollars in the last quarter, with clean-tech companies raking in the largest […]

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Changes Needed for Venture Capital Compensation

November 23, 2009

No less than the president and the CEO of the noted Kaufman Foundation, the $1.8 billion endowment fund that promotes entrepreneurship, are saying that the current venture capital compensation model is broken. In an article in Business Week, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley say the prominence of American venture capital has taken a tumble from […]

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Mid-Market Dealmaking Spurs Private Equity Hiring

November 16, 2009

With the credit crunch easing and markets stabilizing, private equity firms are returning to dealmaking, particularly in the mid- and lower mid-market. The Deal.com reports that lower and mid-market deals accounted for 70% of the 407 transactions by buyout funds so far in 2009, citing data from PitchBook. Financing for new deals is flowing again […]

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Hot Sectors for Venture Capital Jobs

November 9, 2009

Four sectors will lead the field for venture capital investment and job creation according to Rebecca Foreman Janjic, a partner at the Framingham, Mass.-based recruitment firm of Polachi, Inc. In an interview with Troymedia, she singles out: clean technology, mobile applications, consumer Internet/social media and infrastructure software. A venture capital job candidate with experience in […]

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