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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

Within private equity there are certainly sectors that drum up more attention than others. Real estate has long been considered a sound investment, and has become even more popular in recent years as historical data has shown the market’s relatively low volatility. Photo by Tiger Lily from Pexels. Healthcare.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP. That has now changed for good.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%. The Perfect Storm.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. Author howerl.

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