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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

It’s not “traditional PE” — meaning, a leveraged buyout fund where they try to cut costs and squeeze margins — it’s more like a later stage Venture Capital firm, with extra support capabilities to help companies as they scale.

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Leveraged buyout will help Dell pay investors while minimizing taxes | Slate Magazine – [link]. Lawyers Call for Drastic Change in Educating New Lawyers – [link]. “People infected with the flu can send virus particles shooting into the air six feet away” – [link].

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This Friday at NYU-Annual Stern Private Equity Conference

David Teten

In addition, there will be 8 thematic panels: Leveraged Buyout, Real Estate, Energy, Distressed, Venture Capital & Growth, Media & Entertainment, Emerging Markets, and Limited Partners & Secondaries.

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My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade

This is going to be BIG.

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Book: Am I Being Too Subtle?

Feld Thoughts

While he’s gotten lots of criticism for specific failures like the enormous take private (via a leveraged buyout) – and subsequent bankruptcy a year later – of the Tribune Company, he doesn’t dodge his mistakes in this book. He’s had massive successes, but also some very big blunders along the way.

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Retailers: Don't Track Me, Bro

This is going to be BIG.

I was on the team that did a leveraged buyout of AMF, the bowling alley company--so I''ve looked at lots of plans to upgrade in venue customer marketing. Given the time I spent a decade ago doing not only venture capital, but investing in private equity funds that buy retail companies, I find this data collection fascinating.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

These corporate raiders, and these leverage buyouts and this private equity hatchet bin. Just think about the first venture funds that branded themselves with Founder Friendly. Before venture, equity financing was seen as a pretty unfriendly business.