Dan Primack
In the least surprising political development of 2007, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is filing preliminary papers for a presidential run. Anyone interested in seeing him live should register for Buyouts Symposium East on April 16-18 in New York, where he’ll be one of three keynote speakers. This year’s event also will feature […]
I often get emails from private equiteers who want to know what public pension system websites contain fund-specific performance data. My guess is that they’re in charge of crunching the numbers to support their boss’ inevitable claim to be “top quartile.” So here’s a semi-comprehensive overview, ranked in order of usefulness: California Public Employees’ […]
What is MVI LP? That’s the question some of us were asking last month, when an SEC filing revealed that Mellon Financial Corp. had sold its Mellon Ventures portfolio to Goldman Sachs and MVI LP. Most market watchers either assumed it was a Goldman holding company or gave it no thought whatsoever. But it turns […]
VSP Capital lives on. Ok, not really, but some of its former partners are still doing deals together. The latest is San Francisco-based Doppleganger, a onetime VSP portfolio company (then known as Evil Twin Studios) that provides avatar-based IM environments for music fans in conjunction with entertainment and media companies. VSP sold its stake via […]
It’s not quite as raucous as an Internship Rodeo, but Vault.com has launched a video resume contest for aspiring investment bankers. Those interested in a summer analyst gig on Wall Street are being asked to submit video resumes here, after which Vault.com editors will select five winners (who then get recommended to top I-banks). Video […]
As I sat outside in the home office hot-tub last night, I got to thinking about a bunch of improvements I’d like to make to both the PE Week Wire and peHUB.com (which I really view as sister products, at this point). Everything from expanded personalization options to worthy widgets to partnerships with other content […]
I received an email earlier today from someone asking “Where has private equity gone? It seems that deal-flow has slowed just as we expected an onslaught of deals.” The reader and I share mutual expectations, but a different premise: I also expect that buyout volume will increase, but my research shows that the uptick already […]
Most of the VC-backed shutdown news this year has involved Web 2.0 companies, since so many of them have been unable to attract paying users (Assuming they even identified a revenue model beyond CPM ads). But the latest such failure is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer that seems to have had real corporate customers. The company […]
I’ve never been to the La Jolla, Calif. headquarters of private equity consultant Pacific Corporate Group (I hear it’s quite gorgeous), but now imagine that somewhere in its luxurious bowels are compromising photos of public pension trustees. How else to explain the fact that PCG is a finalist for new mandates from the Oregon Investment […]
The latest Forbes Midas List is out, with Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz again taking the top spot. These rankings are always great conversation starters, but also should be taken with a giant grain of salt (kind of like the majority of conversations). Why? Because Forbes focuses on exit value — acquisition price or stock price after […]