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Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.pehub.com/129170/top-angels-talk-about-the-irrepressible-seed-mark... Seed investing fell 56% in the recent third quarter to the lowest level of the past six years, according to the MoneyTree Report. The questio...
Read MoreExtracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.pehub.com/128631/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-an-early-stage-vc-fund/ The federal government played nursemaid to the venture capital market through its SBIC program launched in 1958. Now it’s looking to the same...
Read MoreExtracted 15DEC2011 from http://tinyurl.com/cctzpc4 Robert Hof provides highlights of the Summit in "What's Coming in Venture Capital in 2012: More Disruption for the Disruptors" the asset class is performing, mostly through mergers and acquisitio...
Read MoreExtracted 30NOV2011 fromwww.unctad.org/en/docs/ditctncd20074_en.pdf Given the importance of the insurance sector, its potential for growth, rapidly emergingtrends within the sector including the trend towards liberalization of insurance services, ...
Read MoreExtracted 30NOV2011 from www.iifdc.org/pubs/Insurance%20Assessment%20Report.pdf [The claims and evidence in this report, produced in 2006, are important in the current climate of accelerating globalization.] Given the lack of global information on...
Read MoreExtracted 29NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/87e2et6 Impressively fast growth in the Latin American IT services market is drawing interest from both local and global private equity investors. Claudio Muruzabal, CEO of global business/IT consulting ...
Read MoreExtracted 28NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html One encouraging trend seen this year has been the ability for private equity funds of all sizes to raise capital, with the exception of the mega funds (over $5 billion). Middle-market ...
Read MoreExtracted 28NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html During the third quarter, sales to strategics (corporate acquisitions) led activity with 65 deals and $16 billion. Secondary buyouts (PE to PE deals) continued to be a popular exit met...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html PitchBook is an independent and impartial research firm dedicated to providing premium data, news and analysis to the private equity industry. As a specialty-focused information resour...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/11/21/innovation-is-exploding-say-sp... Despite seemingly endless financial turmoil in Europe and gridlock in Washington, venture investors and entrepreneurs found reason to be opti...
Read MoreExtracted 16NOV2011 from http://www.backbaycommunications.com/sites/all/files/backbay/PrivateEquityBra... Executive Summary 70 percent of survey respondents considered a strong brand to be “very important” for a private equity firm, while 29 perce...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576598942105167646.htm... Though the practice is still experimental, Twitter data already have become a key variable in behavioral finance investment formulas. "The he...
Read MoreExtracted 31OCT2011 from http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/220616 Businesses with between $10,000 and $10 million of revenue account for just 17 percent of new jobs, according to a recent Treasury Department report. The report cites that one reason...
Read MoreExtracte 17OCT2011 from http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/corp_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_s... The report finds that institutions such as IFC help catalyze job creation and growth through the private sector in emerging markets by providi...
Read MoreExtradted 17OCT2011 from http://www.ifc.org/IFCExt/Pressroom/IFCPressRoom.nsf/0/8B638EBAAACAD94D852579... Cairo, October 12, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is investing €15 million in a private equity fund that will invest in small an...
Read MoreExtracted 17OCT2011 from http://blog.arenasolutions.com/how-vested-outsourcing-partnerships-can-cut-yo... Vested Outsourcing is a hybrid model that combines outcome-based thinking with relational economics and shared value principles. It’s about c...
Read MoreExtracted 06OCT2011 from http://www.qfinance.com/dictionary/country-risk International Trade: risk of doing business in particular country The risk associated with undertaking transactions with, or holding assets in, a particular country. Sources ...
Read MoreExtracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/106000/video-top-vcs-discuss-finding-the-next-google/ On the wings of LinkedIn’s IPO, a panel of three top venture capitalists discussed the fast-improving IPO environment, grooming top tech entreprene...
Read MoreExtracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/103724/video-thomas-h-lees-scott-sperling-sees-opportuni... Scott Sperling, co-president of Boston-based buyout shop Thomas H. Lee Partners, this week said he sees continuing opportunities to buy compa...
Read MoreExtracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/120783/infographic-pe-vs-vc-in-battle-of-compensation/ 2011-2012 Holt-Thomson Reuters Private Equity and Venture Capital Compensation Report That the buyout firms in the study manage more money, on ave...
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