Archives for: February 2012
02/25/12
07:30:31 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 56 words 
Categories: Deals, Investment Strategy, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Regulation
AEI: Government Is a Lousy Venture Capitalist, by Kenneth P. Green, Feb. 24, 2012While government has a legitimate and valuable role in basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research, it is a lousy venture capitalist and is largely… more »
02/23/12
07:05:12 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 200 words
Categories: Performance Measurement, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Management Practices Across Firms and Countries, NBER Working Paper No. 17850Issued in February 2012"For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and ran… more »
02/22/12
06:45:16 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 137 words
Categories: Deals, Valuation, Statistics, Performance Measurement, Market Characteristics
Higson, Chris and Stucke, Rüdiger, The Performance of Private Equity (February 16, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2009067
Abstract:
"We present conclusive evidence on the performance of private equity, using a high quality datas… more »
02/20/12
01:51:15 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 83 words
Categories: Deals, Investment Strategy, Market Structure
Not long ago many people in the financial markets believed that globally integrated firms will be the winners. Practical life shows that strong local networks and know how are key to private equity players - not only in Brazil as shown in the video below… more »
08:50:04 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 61 words
Categories: Deals, Performance Measurement, Market Characteristics
Following paper is some years old but still important as it shows that capital structure matters a lot in designing incentive schemes which do not create moral hazard issues. Debt is an important factor in such structuring.
Koufopoulos, Kostas, Manag… more »
02/11/12
08:45:50 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 7 words
Categories: Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Keywords: Capitalism, "Conscious Capitalism" more »
02/09/12
11:53:00 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 17 words
Categories: Deals, Valuation, Statistics, Market Structure
PE Hub: European Buyout Market in 2011: A Slideshow of Highlights, Feb. 9, 2012Keywords: Private Equity, LBO, Buy Out more »
02/07/12
08:57:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 17 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Apollo's Sam Oh on evolving GP-LP relationship from The Deal on Vimeo.
Keywords: Private Equity, GPs, LPs more »
XML Feeds
_________________________________________________________________________________
PRIVATE EQUITY NEWS:
ENTREPRENEUR'S BLOGS:
- Marc Andreessen's Blog (Founder Netscape Communications)
- Richard Branson's Blog
- The Enterprise Network (a Network of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs)
- Feld Thoughts (from Brad Feld, Founder of Feld Technologies)
- Jonathan's Blog (Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems)
- Seth Goding (Author and Entrepreneur)
- Lee Hower (Part of the founding Team of LinkedIn
- Ryan McIntyre (Co-Founder Excite)
- Peter Rip (General Partner Crosslink Ventures)
- Peter Schüpbach NewBorn Blog
_________________________________________________________________________________FOUNDER HIGHLIGHTS AND FOUNDER FRUSTRA- TIONS:
VARIOUS LINKS:
- Altassets
- Angel's Corner
- Blogging Buy outs (AOL Money)
- China Venture News
- CMBOR Nottingham Univ.
- Fractals of Change
- From Wall Street to Main Street (Private Equity Blog of Congressman Tom Reynolds
- Innovations-Report
- PrivateEquityBlogger.com
- PrivateEquityFirms.com
- LPX-Private Equity Research
- Private Equity Intelligence
- Private Equity Week
- PWC Money Tree
- Silicon Valley News
- Silicon Valley Watcher
- Standard&Poors (LBO Debt)
- TechConfidential
- TechCrunch
- The Funded (Experiences with VC's)
- Think Equity Blog (Silicon Valley)
- Valleywag (Tech Gossip)
- VCCircle (India)
- Venture Capital Magazin (Germany)
- Venture Economics
_______________________________________________________________________________DEAL RUMORS/DEALS:
ASSOC./INSTITUTES:
- Asian VC Journal
- BVCA (UK)
- Private Equity Guide (Emory Univ.)
- European Corp. Gov. Institute
- EVCA (Europe)
- IVA (Israel)
- NVCA(USA)
- NVCA(India)
- Private Equity Valuation
- Private Equity Council (Washington DC)
- SECA (Switzerland)
- Yale Entrepreneurial Society
PRIVATE EQUITY STATISTICS:
- Dow Jones: Venture Capital Statistics
- Emory Univ: Private Equity Institute (incl. comprehensive Statistics Links)
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry (Baker Library Harvard)
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