PEI Staff

The rumor is that Google will finally unveil its mobile strategy today. The search firm’s every move is closely watched, but lately even the parochial Boston technology community is abuzz about what’s happening in Silicon Valley.  For months now, both the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal have breathlessly reported Google’s every move, including its real […]

Every year an increasing number of funds reach the end of their planned ten-year term. In 1997, 309 private equity funds were raised, meaning that all those that have not already been liquidated will reach the decade mark this year (source: VenturExpert). At the end of a fund’s term, the General Partner has two basic […]

No candidate for president has suggested that the nation should raise the marginal tax rate on the richest beyond the 38 percent rate it was under Clinton (it’s now 35 percent, but the richest of the rich, as I’ll explain in a moment, are paying only 15 percent). Yet new data from the IRS show […]

If Stephen Colbert can guest write a column for Maureen Dowd in the Sunday New York Times to pitch his new book then certainly Gary Snoman can take up some space on peHUB to take his new movie to the people. So I cede the balance of my time to our good friend Gary… Thank […]

While other members of the LBO world are waiting out the credit storm before going through with their IPOs, mid-market mezz lender Fifth Street Capital is plowing ahead. The White Plains, N.Y.-based firm yesterday filed papers with the SEC to become a publicly traded business development company. Fifth Street is looking to raise $150 million […]

Japan would consider solar energy pioneer Bill Yerkes a living national treasure. Many in the photovoltaics field consider him the father of the industry. His career illustrates how one man with persistence and drive can help create an entire industry, and it gives us valuable insights in how to launch a new busines opportunity. Bill was also […]

The following is excerpted from an email from David Weild to a senior SEC official, part of an ongoing discussion.  Thank you for the quick response and the thoughts of your colleagues.    Let’s diverge for a moment from the question of accounting costs.      The reason why we care about the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and the […]

My husband is a Bill Maher fan and, each Friday night, we look forward to hearing his version of “New Rules.” So, in that spirit, here are my New Rules for Recruiting:   New Rule: If you say it’s not about the money, then you can’t negotiate for the last dollar on an offer. Opportunity […]

The following post is the majority of a letter I sent to a senior contact at the SEC today:  Last week I was up and down Silicon Valley talking to venture capitalists and CFOs. The week before I was in Boston, Waltham and along Route 128. People are simply fed up with being held hostage […]

My partner, Chip Hazard, has been an enterprise IT VC since he joined Greylock in 1994.  He and I have watched with some amusement as everyone and their brother in the VC community has been writing off enterprise IT as a boring industry and reinventing themselves as consumer VCs.  With some coaxing, he agreed to […]