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Inside Private Equity: The Professional Investor’s Handbook (Wiley Finance)
Inside Private Equity explores the complexities of this asset class and introduces new methodologies that connect investment returns with wealth creation. By providing straightforward examples, it demystifies traditional measures like the IRR and challenges many of the common assumptions about … Continue reading
How To Raise Venture Capital – Venture Capital 101
Great news! After a long drought of M and A activity, the market for private companies is showing signs of life and recovery. If you own, operate or advise a middle market company, $5 million to $500 million in revenue, what does this mean for you and your clients when thinking about shareholder liquidity or selling the business? And how can you improve the odds of getting a deal done? From a private equity perspective, the dollars invested in middle market companies more than doubled from 2009 to 2010. Publicly traded strategic buyers like the S and P 500 companies have historical levels of cash, and are seeking to deploy part of this hoard to generate significant revenue through external growth initiatives like acquisitions, which can provide access to new customers, higher margin product lines, new technologies and entrepreneurial talent. The same concept applies to what private equity refers to as tuck-in or bolt-on acquisitions for larger existing portfolio companies. Continue reading
The Advantage and Disadvantages of Venture Capital – Venture Capital
The idea of joint venturing is now attracting lots of business out there, and it does not matter whether they are big or small. This is because of the benefits that small businesses and even successful and big businesses. Continue reading