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Book: King of Capital

Feld Thoughts

While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. It was indeed private equity’s moment.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. 2006) [iii]. By analogy, look at a middle market private equity firms such as the Riverside Company.

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Five Questions With Jeff Berman (Public Defender Turned Kardashian App Builder)

Hunter Walker

HW: Having been at MySpace 2006-2009 do you have empathy today for what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are trying to solve (safety and abuse, manipulation)? When I went to MySpace, Chris DeWolfe, our co-founder and CEO, made safety a company-wide priority and we owned up to what we were doing poorly. More to come.