Topic: Private Equity Firms

Paradoxes in PE: IPO's, LBO's and M+A

Will You Be Acquired, and Then What Happens?

A common misconception from companies contemplating an exit is that M&A has dried up as the venture and IPO markets have. This is not to say that M&A hasn’t been affected by the current market conditions, but dried up? No. Case ...READ MORE›

$3.7B in Digital Sales? That's Entertainment!

Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses how private equity is investing in the media and entertainment industry.READ MORE›

Fruit Stand Lending

Who's that man walking through the street markets of Ecuador, trying to make $50 loans? It's Michael Chu, a former executive of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., the world's most powerful leveraged buyout operator.READ MORE›

True Finance

The education of an Internet entrepreneur.READ MORE›

What are the New SuperAngels Looking For?

We all know the venture capital industry has been disrupted, but from the outside it is difficult to see how this will effect startups. Here's a real panel of experts talking about how that disruption works for both the entrepreneur ...READ MORE›

Top 5 Venture Capital Firms: Funding Social Missions

In recent years, a new breed of venture capital firms has emerged to make an impact beyond just profitability. Social venture capital funds are adding a new mission in combination with positive financial returns: social and environmental impact. Highlighting social venture funds across the world, this week’s top five will focus on VC portfolios that range from organic beverages to water purification systems in Rajasthan to fiber optic enterprises making energy companies more efficient.READ MORE›

William M. Keever to speak at Venture Capital Workshop

Castle Venture Group, a venture capital firm located in Nashville, TN, will host a workshop for angel and venture firm investors.  The speaker will be William M. Keever, Castle's President and Founder, as well as a number of other ...READ MORE›

Why Designers and Venture Capitalists Should Start Working Together Now

I just returned from the Israel Conference in L.A., a gathering of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and business people closely tied to the Israel-California innovation connection. The elegant event attracted over 500 ...READ MORE›

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

VC Funding and Innovation

It seems that even in innovation, there is some wisdom to be gained from the tortoise and the hare. READ MORE›

Burger King Going Brazilian in $4 Billion Buyout

An investment firm backed by a trio of wealthy Brazilians is buying the fast food franchise.READ MORE›

Built to Flip - Where Do You Come Down?

Has Built to Flip overthrown Built to Last? Should it? Fast Company asked five commentators to tell us where they come down on those questions -- and to offer strong opinions that will spark debate.READ MORE›

All the Right Connections

The partners at Arts Alliance Ltd., a venture-capital firm, believe that success is about making connections -- between companies and their customers, and between portfolio companies.READ MORE›

Paul McNamara

General Manager, Enterprise Market Segment at Red Hat Inc., Durham, North CarolinaREAD MORE›

Rising Trend of Social Venture Capital

As venture capital continues to support cause-driven companies, entrepreneurs have an opportunity to be profitable and create long-term sustainability. Where at one time cause-driven businesses found it challenging to find investment, if the trend continues, social entrepreneurship will take center-stage and potentially be the gold standard of the investing world.READ MORE›

Why private equity firms should enter banking sector- Robin Trehan

However, in light of the current economic situation, it is clear that this type of regulatory interference no longer makes sense. READ MORE›

Venture Capital, " Rightsized"

The old guard of venture capital is changing. The reason? Older partners downshifting as new money starts to flow in.READ MORE›

How Accel Partners Turns Pitches Into Hits

Meeting I Never MissREAD MORE›

He Knows How to Be Diligent About Due Diligence

Whether you're sizing up an investment or a new hire, it's not enough to study the financials and the references. As due-diligence expert Barry Rhein will tell you, you've got to read between the lines.READ MORE›

How Dropping Your Ego and Picking Good Mentors Can Earn You $750 Mil

I was living in San Francisco last year when I attended a small and informal talk that a young entrepreneur gave at an alumni event. At the time he started up AdMob, a seller of mobile advertising, he was with a new wife and child ...READ MORE›

Happiness Sells: Global Toys Sales on the Rise, Toys "R" Us May Go Public

The global toy market increased by 2.3% in 2008 to more than $78 billion, according to a report by market research firm NPD Group. And that number is projected to rise to $80 billion by 2012. The news could re-energize plans for Toys ...READ MORE›

(No) Exit Ahead?

A leading venture capitalist offers a tough-love survival guide: How to keep your company afloat when the IPO market has dried up. Plus, six words you should never use when raising money.READ MORE›

Built to Last

Fast Company issues this call to action and invites you to read it, sign it, and join the movement to realize the promise of the new economy.READ MORE›

Mar Hershenson - Fast 50 2002

27. Chip Away at ObstaclesREAD MORE›

Kleiner Perkins & Green Packaging Inc. Leading GreenStream

While there were flickers of the green movement in the 1960s only recently have we seen an explosion in the green sector. Much like plastics in the early 1970s, starry-eyed investors are lining up at the door to invest in...READ MORE›