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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business” (May 26th, 2011). Our star intern Adam Kalamchi took detailed notes, below. High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote View more presentations Chairman’s Keynote: How to Win -The Five S’s of Successful...

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Origination, Market Research, Private Equity, Social Media, Venture Capital

Social Media Week panel-News Dissemination in a Social Finance World

I enjoyed today’s panel at Social Media Week, with Paul Murphy of the Financial Times, presenting FT Tilt, followed by a panel on "News Dissemination in a Social Finance World". Howard Lindzon was a highly entertaining moderator. Twitter tag for discussion: #SMWFT FT Tilt is a new premium online financial news and analysis service focused...

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Events, New York, Social Media

How the Networked Economy is Changing the Deal Origination ROI Paradigm

Peter Lehrman of AxialMarket posted this must-read Powerpoint on the evolution of private equity deal sourcing. I definitely agree with the points he makes here. Most interesting are his estimates of the cost for different methods of deal sourcing. We discuss in more depth a lot of these ideas in The Virtual Handshake. Deal Origination...

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New York, Origination, Private Equity, Social Media, Venture Capital

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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Fintech, Marketing, Origination, Private Equity, Research, Sales Tech, Social Media

Oodle acquires Grouply

Congratulations to the team at Grouply on their sale to Oodle! I’ve been on the Advisory Board of Grouply since its very early days, and am an enthusiastic user. It very significantly increase my efficiency by allowing me to monitor more online communities than I could otherwise keep an eye on. I have to admit...

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Social Media

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. Evalueserve, a global research firm and...

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AltsTech, Contributed Articles, Market Research, Private Equity, Social Media, Venture Capital
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