Archive for the 'Private Equity' Category

Final draft available: private equity and venture capital funds' best practices in originating new investments

 

We're in the last lap of editing our research study on best practices of private equity and venture capital investors in originating new investments, which has a particular focus on use of social media.  We plan to publish this in a major private equity journal.
 
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On August 16th, 2010

Goodbye Expert Networks, Hello Private Equity: Coverage from Integrity Research

   Integrity Research wrote a nice blog post about the new startup I'm working on: 
 
"As more research providers emerge to analyze the public markets (there are now over 3,500 research providers in our database), one gap in the market are research providers for the private markets.  David Teten, founder of the expert network Evalueserve Read More...

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On August 4th, 2010

Our new Harvard Business Review article: Time for Investors to Get Social

I'm excited to report that we've started to release the results from our first-ever study on best practices in private equity and venture capital deal origination.  My coauthor Chris Farmer (formerly Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners) and I published a summary in the current issue of Harvard Business Review. 
 
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On May 24th, 2010

How Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds Grow the Value of Portfolio Companies

One of the major themes of the evolution of the private equity industry for the past decade has been the growth of internal groups focused on enhancing the value of portfolio companies. Twenty years ago, the great majority of the people working in private equity came out of investment banking, i.e., a deal background. Today, Read More...

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On April 19th, 2010

Peter Drucker on the Seven Sources of Systematic Innovation

When Peter Drucker died, his obituaries were so laudatory I thought that I really should become familiar with his work.  So I've been reading through some of his major books.  It's striking how well-written and timeless they are.
I just finished his classic "Innovation and Entrepreneurship".  For my purposes in working with funds to identify Read More...

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On January 13th, 2010