Lots of venture capitalists claim to add value to the companies in which they invest. But how do they do it? And does it really produce better returns for their investors? My coauthors and I just published in the Journal of Private Equity the first-ever research study on [...continue reading]
> Investing > Portfolio Operations3 Ways Proven Executives Get Paid To Work With Startups
Drew Hansen recently posted in Forbes a summary of my presentation on Career Opportunities with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. The article is here. [...continue reading]
How VCs Deploy Operating Talent To Build Better Startups
Drew Hansen just posted a very interesting piece on Forbes on, “How VCs Deploy Operating Talent To Build Better Startups”. He draws on the research study my coauthors and I are about to publish on best practices in how venture capitalists increase the odds of company success through [...continue reading]
Washington, DC May 24: HBS Angels/VCs and Creating Portfolio Company Value
I hope you can join me in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:30 PM To 8:30 PM for a talk and event sponsored by the HBS Club of Washington, DC. RSVP required; No money can be taken at door As I've previously blogged, I will soon publish the first formal study of best practices of [...continue reading]
How VCs Can Accelerate Portfolio Company Returns
(This post co-written with Koen Bremer, Gyorgy Buslig, and Adham Hussein. Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG. I've also posted this at Betabeat.) Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value [...continue reading]
How to Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies
I'm delivering a webinar next Tuesday for Harvard Business School Career Services on "How to Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies". Among the topics I'm covering: - Raise capital from a venture capital fund to found a company - Partner with a private equity fund [...continue reading]
How to Scale Early-Stage Investing
Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital, I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large [...continue reading]
Private equity portfolio monitoring and operating partners
Private Equity Manager magazine has a special edition on portfolio monitoring, with some helpful coverage of how private equity operating partners' roles have evolved. I was particularly interested in their coverage of PEOPEN, the private equity operating partner network. The group was first [...continue reading]
