Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Friday Feedback Rain is headed toward The Bronx, the presidential race is either a dead-heat (Harris, PEW) or a cakewalk (Gallop), and VC Ivana has survived another week on The Apprentice, even though she deserved the boot. In other words, it’s […]
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Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Friday Without Feedback? Thank God for Dunkin Donuts iced French vanilla coffee. With apologies to a loyal Wire reader from Starbucks corporate, this stuff simply gets me going – like Jolt Cola once did during Little League games. And I need […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Friday Feedback The gap between high and low-income U.S. households continued to grow in 2003, MassPRIM fund performance data is now available at www.PrivateEquityWeek.com and I’ve got to go pack for a weekend on Cape Cod. In other words, it’s time […]
Random Ramblings Some scattered notes, links and marketing as the summer doldrums head into their second-to-last weekend: (1) A steady refrain from entrepreneurs over the past six months has been that seed-stage and Series A funding rounds have become increasingly difficult to come by. They blame risk-averse VCs who are willing to exchange price (better […]
Friday Feedback Floridians are hunkered down, the U.S. trade deficit just hit a record high and my home office is gorging on humidity. In other words, it’s time for some Friday Feedback. No real theme today, just a random sampling. First up is Monday’s discussion of The Carlyle Group qua Manchurian Global Corp. The majority of […]
17,000 Strong Every time the PE Week Wire adds another thousand subscribers, I like to remind you that this free service is just a tiny morsel compared to the feast enjoyed by paid subscribers to Private Equity Week (or PE Week, if six syllables makes you anxious). Paid subscribers receive the weekly print edition, plus full […]
MMC Capital Inc., a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, held a final close on its Trident III fund, finishing with $1.1 billion. The fund will target investments in global insurance, employee benefits and financial services, while the size of those investments will generally be from $25 million to $150 million. Sorrent Inc., a San […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Worse Than Enron? The recent string of big buyout deals continues today (see news below), but the most interesting LBO story involves a transaction that may never occur. Last November, Texas Pacific Group agreed to purchase Portland General Electric from […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Napster Fallout Could Affect Buyout Firms Many VCs are troubled by Tuesday’s ruling that Universal Music Group can proceed in its Napster-related lawsuit against Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. To them, it is further confirmation that VCs eventually could be held liable for […]