It’s been very exciting to see such a strong response to our recent research study on “Best Practices in Private Equity and Venture Capital Deal Origination”, published in the Winter 2010 Journal of Private Equity. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic study on this topic; we have not found any other in-depth research...
[Continue Reading]The reality of Profitably raising money from angels and VCs in New York
Adam Neary wrote an unusually open post about his experience raising $1.1m for Profitably, a provider of small business analytics. (Disclosure: I’m a Mentor for Founder Institute. Adam was one of our star students from the first class in New York, when Profitably was just Adam, a Powerpoint, and a really amazing domain name. I...
[Continue Reading]Launch of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York
Back in December, Richard Kane, President, Harvard Business School Club of New York, asked me if I’d like to chair the newly-formed Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York. I was honored to be asked, and we’ve now launched our organization and are accepting applications from early-stage companies seeking funding. You can read more...
[Continue Reading]On Expert Networks, Compliance, the Drunk and the Lamppost
Expert networks have been in the news a lot for the past few weeks, due to the SEC’s attempt to look for insider trading amongst hedge funds, following on their Galleon investigation (Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon is in the photo shown). The best source of information on this topic is as usual the Integrity Research...
[Continue Reading]How a Private Equity Fund Uses Social Media for Building its Investment Pipeline and Raising Capital
Most private equity funds (and the equipment finance industry) are well behind the VC industry with regard to their use of social media. Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners, calculates that of the approximately 1,000 venture capitalists in the US actively seeking deals, 10-15% blog. Sarah Tavel, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners, calls this...
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