PEI Staff
Paul Buckman, former CEO and president with Pathway Medical Technologies, talks about the hurdles to clear on the way to an exit.
The Wall St. Journal reported recently that Morgan Stanley was king of the tech IPO world and they had topped the underwriter charts with $115 million in revenue. That’s good news? Is this a sign of health in the Tech IPO world? I spent many years leading many IPOs at Robertson Stephens, we were a […]
Guest columnist Coco Kee looks at China’s new rules around PE fund registration, operations and information disclosure in Circular 2864.
“I like money,” one founder said to me bluntly, in response to my question about what motivates him. I ask every founder this question. Some of them say things such as “to provide for my kids,” or “I want financial security.” One 24-year-old software engineer said, “I want to have a jet,” and after a […]
The industrials space represented 32% of all opportunities, with 818 companies coming to market through November 2011, ranging in company size from $0 to more than $430 million in revenue, according to AxialMarket data. Opportunities represent companies across each US region, and are broken down by industry, revenue, and EBITDA. Investment banks, business brokers, and […]
The American economy is a mess. Growth has been stuck at a tortoise-like pace for years. The unemployment rate continues to hover at nine percent or higher. And faltering research and development threatens not only innovation, but our future. The good news is there’s a fix for this: The U.S. government simply needs to invest […]
Last week I had the privilege of meeting with the senior leadership of one of the Federal Reserve Banks. For close to three hours we discussed the middle-market financing environment and the ramifications for smaller companies. Not only was it an incredible opportunity to interact with the people charged with overseeing monetary policy, it also gave me […]
Through the third quarter of 2011, the tech sector was the second most active sector on AxialMarket, representing 18% of all opportunities. In the space, 522 companies came to market, ranging in company size from $0 to over $528 million in revenue, within the United States and abroad. Investors on the AxialMarket network express interest […]
As a venture capitalist with a long list of contacts in Silicon Valley and Tokyo, Gen Isayama is accustomed to introducing startups to strategic partners on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. Never before, however, has he gotten so many requests to do so. Isayama, a partner at DCM, tells Joanna Glasner of Venture Capital […]
The latest edition of Buyouts holds a valuable guest article by Co-CEOs of The Riverside Company Stewart Kohl and Béla Szigethy who give us a rare glimpse into the mistakes that top private equity firms make in an industry where everyone claims to be top-quartile but where LPs are increasingly scrutinizing track records.