Private Equity Manager magazine has a special edition on portfolio monitoring, with some helpful coverage of how private equity operating partners’ roles have evolved.  I was particularly interested in their coverage of PEOPEN, the private equity operating partner network.  The group was first initiated with an informal dinner in August 2008, led by Tony Ecock Read More...

I hope that you can join me on November 30 at the great event below on “Financing Marketplaces
In the past 3 years we've seen the rise of new online marketplaces for financing - hubs for funding start-ups, selling companies, giving grants, and allowing employees from non-public companies (ie. Facebook) cash in their options!

 
Congratulations to the team at AxialMarket on raising $2m from First Round Capital and Windcrest Investments. I take this as a sign that they're starting to gain traction among corporations and private equity funds, despite the fact they're threatening the lunch of lower-tier business brokers and others who benefit from the currently highly inefficient, fragmented Read More...

 
I just learned that the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation has finished their study on "Social Networking for the Equipment Finance Industry 2010".  The executive summary is available at http://www.leasefoundation.org/IndRsrcs/MO/SocMed10/ ; the full study is $300.  The author is Suzanne E. Henry.
 
The study shows that B2B social media marketing in the equipment finance industry is Read More...