I’m giving a talk next month on “How Private Equity Funds Raise Capital and Source Deals with Social Media” at Terrapinn’s Private Equity Latin America & Real Estate Latin America conference in Miami. I discuss this topic in more depth in an earlier article I wrote. Here's my draft [...continue reading]
> Investing > Private EquityHelping startups hit a home run, VC Style
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]
3 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]
This Friday at NYU-Annual Stern Private Equity Conference
The Stern Private Equity Club will host its 8th Annual Stern Private Equity Conference on Friday, March 1st, 2013. Keynote Speakers are Andrea Bonomi (Chairman of Investindustrial), Mark Dzialga (Managing Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic) & me. [...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]
Corporations speak: How I think about buying your startup
I’m kicking off a new series on this blog: detailed notes on events of interest to the investing and technology community. Conrad Wadowski, Business Development at Xamtech, is initiating with his detailed notes on the inaugural panel of the new Enterprise Tech Meetup. Livestream video [...continue reading]
