Category: Various Market Info
03/15/13
03:01:56 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Think Different like Steve Jobs: Leadership and Innovation by Peter Fisk from Peter Fisk
Keywords: Steve Jobs, Visionary Thinking, Entrepreneurship more »
10/11/12
06:46:04 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 186 words
Categories: Deals, Valuation, Statistics, Performance Measurement, Various Market Info, Asia
Fang, Lily H., Ivashina, Victoria and Lerner, Josh, The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity (October 9, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2159229Abstract: "One of the important issues i… more »
08/14/12
09:19:26 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 22 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Forbes: The Most Entrepreneurial Colleges, August 2012
Stanford
MIT
Harvard
Caltech
UC Berkeley
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Keywords: Entrepreneurial Colleges, Entrepreneurship, Start Up Activity more »
07/25/12
06:52:11 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 62 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
DealBook, NYT: Taking a Risk, and Hoping That Lightning Strikes Twice, by Andrew Ross Sorkin, July 23, 2012...“How can you as an entrepreneur that’s had success, has a reputation, ever build the courage to go and do something again?” he asked, almost… more »
06/03/12
08:50:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 5 words
Categories: Deals, Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
Keywords: Private Equity, Venture Capital more »
06/01/12
Reuters: Mr. Biden, here’s the truth about private equity, by Suzy and Jack Welch, May 30, 2012
Hello, indeed, and with all due respect to the vice-president, and certainly with no offense intended toward plumbers, we have a question.
Mr. Vice-Pres… more »
05/23/12
06:12:33 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 131 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
New York Times: Tall Tales About Private Equity, by Steven Rattner, May 22, 2012
..."However, I was also concerned that the Obama ads, while narrowly accurate, might be seen to portray Bain Capital (and implicitly, private equity) in an ugly light bec… more »
05/18/12
08:02:37 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 159 words
Categories: Valuation, Performance Measurement, Various Market Info, Market Characteristics
A latest Kauffman Foundation publication stating that VC funds were not able to deliver the superior returns as many might have expected, created a lot of heat in the VC scene. Here is one of the responses to the publication:Good money after bad:… more »
05/13/12
08:17:02 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 172 words
Categories: Valuation, Statistics, Investment Strategy, Various Market Info, Market Characteristics
Kauffman Foundatiôn: After Fees and Expenses, Most Investors Will Do Better in Public Markets, May 7, 2012A compelling new report out today from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation describes how most institutional investors, including larger state… more »
05/05/12
09:31:27 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 153 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
The Fiscal Times: The American Entrepreneur: A Dying Breed? May 3, 2012
The image of the independent entrepreneur – striking out on his own, building something from the ground up – is central to the American identity. The reality, though, is not quite… more »
04/25/12
07:04:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 204 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Crowdfunding to boost economic activity has been a measure not only in the US during difficult economic times. As an example, also the Swiss decided to rapidly invest a three digit million amount into entrepreneurial SMEs. Babson college's Daniel Isenber… more »
04/06/12
06:27:34 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 21 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Market Structure
Find The Best: Comparison of Private Equity Groups
Find The Best: Comparison of Venture Capital Firms
Keywords: Private Equity, Venture Capital more »
03/05/12
06:55:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 121 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Market Characteristics
NYT: Capital Gains, Ordinary Income and Shades of Gray, by N. Gregory Mankiw, March 3, 2012"Throughout almost the entire history of the United States income tax, the tax rate on capital gains has been lower than that on ordinary income. Today, the to… more »
10/14/11
02:29:04 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 93 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Asia, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Private Equity has become an important economic sector in the Canton of Zoug, Switzerland. The Canton has HQ's of such firms as Partners Group and Landis & Gyr (private equity backed for years, now Toshiba). The Zoug Economic Chamber and the Swiss Ve… more »
10/09/11
James Kwak of Baseline Scenario is not convinced that Silicon Valley is in urgent need of Wall Street:
The Baseline Scenario: Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Oct. 9, 2011
Keywords: Silicon Valley, Wall Street more »
09/18/11
03:45:39 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 12 words
Categories: Deals, Various Market Info, News
Keywords: Carlyle, Founder Succession, IPO more »
09/10/11
11:28:01 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 19 words
Categories: Valuation, Various Market Info, Market Characteristics, News
Carlyle immune to frail banks, files for $100M IPO from The Deal on Vimeo.
Keywords: Carlyle, Private Equity, IPO more »
07/20/11
05:22:33 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 69 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
In times of constantly negative political news it is a kind of good to hear that lots of people are still seaking success as entrepreneurs!!!
Los Angeles Times: What recession? It's boom time again in Silicon Valley, July 17, 2011
Investors pile in… more »
06/11/11
12:39:26 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 109 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Market Characteristics
Braendel, Addison D. and Chertok, Seth, Closed-End Private Equity Funds: A Detailed Overview of Fund Business Terms, Part I (2010). The Journal of Private Equity, pp. 33-54, Spring 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1859528
Abstract:… more »
06/07/11
06:55:28 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 20 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
Quigley Report: A Venture Capital Revival is Upon Us View more presentations from quigleyreport Keywords: Venture Capital, Venture Capital Revival more »
XML Feeds
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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)
_________________________________________________________________________________INTEREST RATES:
_________________________________________________________________________________WORKING PAPERS PRIVATE EQUITY AND VENTURE CAPITAL:
_________________________________________________________________________________DIRECTORIES:
