Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Winner’s Circle The sun is shining, the grass is growing, and the Red Sox fans are complaining. In other words, its time for Ryan Delaney feedback. I’ve earned the privilege to write in this space for being the best guesser in the […]
Random Ramblings A few quick notes before the trusty Pontiac heads down to Providence Airport, where I’ll catch my plane to Raleigh-Durham for the VCIC event: ** Boston-based Summit Partners is in the fund-raising market with two offerings: One focused on late-stage private equity and LBOs, and the other focused on growth-stage venture capital. Limited […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings A handful of news notes to carry us into Final Four/Opening Day weekend: Big win yesterday for life sciences VCs, as the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill that promotes in-state embryonic stem cell research. More importantly, they […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Not too much going on this morning, so just a few quick notes to kick off the weekend (I couldn’t even come up with a column title): ** You may have noticed that some press reports are still valuing the Toys […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Live from New York: Random Ramblings Just a few more hours until I leave cold and dreary New York for cold and dreary Boston, so let’s get to a few things: * Yesterday I moderated a limited partner panel at the […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. 21,000 and Counting… Every time the PE Week Wire adds another thousand subscribers (we hit 21,000 yesterday), I like to remind you that this free service is just a tasty sampling of the 8-course feast that is Private Equity Week. To […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings: Apax, Hedge Funds and Antoine A few scattered notes before I head outside for some light shoveling. * For the past month, readers have been asking what I meant when I suggested that Apax Partners could become the next […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. It Just Got Messy As my plane pulled into the gate last night, I got a call from Steve Barrett, chief marketing officer for liquidating law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. We chatted briefly, with Steve declining much comment, as […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Dagres Goes Angel 1. Did you hear the one about how Todd Dagres is opening an East Coast office for Kleiner Perkins? Or maybe that he’s been dating some notable movie starlets? No? Well Dagres has heard (and denied) them all […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings A few notes as we head into Super Bowl Weekend (a.k.a. “go cry in your cheesesteak” weekend): * The jet that crashed Wednesday at Teterboro Airport had been chartered by private equity firm Kelso & Co., but all five […]