Sandeep Khare

Hey, it's Friday. Time to catch up on your reading. Here are the 10 posts regular peHUB readers found most interesting this week. 1. Slideshow: Top 10 Biggest Winners in LinkedIn’s Moon-Shot IPO, by Lawrence Aragon 2. Slide Show: Top IPO Pops By Venture-Backed Companies, by Steve Bills 3. VCs Are Interested in Stuff Besides Social Media (Really), by Nadia Damouni and Jennifer Saba, Reuters 4. VCs from Accel, Atlas and Google Ventures Are Skeptical of Secondary Market Trading, by Jennifer Saba and Nadia Damouni, Reuters 5. Scoop: ‘Super LP’ Chris Douvos Leaving The Investment Fund for Foundations, by Lawrence Aragon 6. Jeffrey Bussgang: Five Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Navy SEALs, by Jeffrey Bussgang, Flybridge Capital Partners 7. Lovechildren, Sexual Assaults, Now A Lovelorn Venture Elopement Sparks Controversy In China, by Mark Boslet 8. The Good-But-Not-Great News About Venture Returns, by Connie Loizos 9. Jules Maltz Speeds to GP Post at IVP, by peHUB staff 10. UBS Adds Frisch to Tech Banking Team, by Nadia Damouni, Reuters

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the blog posts written by our staff this week that garnered the most pageviews from our regular readers from May 9 to May 13. 10. Entrepreneur Twitter Drama Highlights the Price of Speaking Freely, by Connie Loizos 9. Freeman Spogli Finally Closes Fund VI, $265M Short Of Target, by Bernard Vaughan 8. Warburg Deals Wall Street Systems To TA Associates, by Luisa Beltran 7. Silver Lake Sees Huge Return In Skype Sale, by Bernard Vaughan 6. Slideshow: MSFT’s Skype Buy is 2011’s Biggest Tech Deal So Far, by Luisa Beltran 5. New List Gives Outsiders Another Reason to Envy Facebook Employees, by Connie Loizos 4. Renren Analysis: Is Facebook 36% Overvalued?, by Joanna Glasner 3. Slideshow: U.S. Leads World in Cleantech Investing, by Mark Boslet 2. Slideshow: Solar Still Drives Cleantech Investing, by Mark Boslet 1. Slideshow: A Look at CalPERS’s Top-Performing Funds, by Steve Bills

Having poured over pageviews in Google Analytics, I'm certain of two things about peHUB readers: One, you love lists -- top 5, top 10, top 20, you name it. And, two, you love slideshows. So, this week I'm turning our top 10 Hub posts into a slideshow. I'm hoping for a chocolate-and-peanut butter result. Let me know if you this "tastes" better better than the static list that we normally run. Without further ado, here are the top 10 most popular blog posts written between May 2 and May 6, based on pageviews by our regular readers.

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB last week? Here are the top 10 blog posts written by peHUB staffers that garnered the most pageviews from our regular readers from April 18 to April 22. No. 1: Concern Grows Over Founders Cashing Out Too Much, Too Early No. 2: Fund Terms Grow Sweeter; Bain Expected To Offer 20% Carry No. 3: Churchill Financial Files To Form A BDC No. 4: Hungry VCs Like the Taste of Social Food Sites No. 5: Charlesbank, H.I.G. Sell Vision Source After Nearly A Year No. 6: Global Secondary Market Expected to Surpass $25B, as Asian Deals Take Off No. 7: Decide.com Gets Another Big Name Advisor And $6M In Cash No. 8: Social Scene: Hard-to-Get Seats at Obama’s Facebook Town Hall, Foundry Dudes Rock a New Band, 13-Year-Old’s Entreprenurial Spirit Inspires No. 9: Silver Lake Kraftwerk Confirms Atluru And Fichtner As Partners No. 10: Washington State Re-Ups With $300 Million to Providence Equity Partners

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the blog posts written by our staff this week that garnered the most pageviews from our regular readers from April 11 to April 15. No. 1: Slideshow: Top 10 Buyout/Mezzanine Funds Raised in Q1 No. 2: Slideshow: Ten Largest Buyout Deals Of Q1 No. 3: Slideshow: Ten Largest U.S. VC Deals for Q1 No. 4: Which University Is No. 1 for Midas List Members? No. 5: Eight Up And Coming VCs Worth Knowing No. 6: Preqin Estimates 183 PE Shops Going Out of Business No. 7: If Mark Zuckerberg Duped Investors, Are They On the Hook (and Other Answers to Your Questions) No. 8: Q&A Houlihan’s Adelson: PE Firms are the New Conglomerates No. 9: Did Zipcar’s Underwriters Just Give It the Shaft? Yes, and No; Here’s Why No. 10: Angel Investing In 2010 Shows Signs Of An Inflating Bubble

A lot of smart people comment on posts at peHUB, but sometimes their remarks get lost in the shuffle. To ensure that their voices get heard, we are launching “Talk Back,” an occasional feature where we round up some of the most interesting comments on peHUB. Here’s our first installment. DAVE MCCLURE, founding general partner of 500 Startups, weighs in on 500 Startups First Accelerator Demo Days Draw Big Crowd, Some Caution:

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the blog posts written by our staff this week that garnered the most pageviews by our regular readers from March 28 to April 1. (Note: Instead of tracking total pageviews, this list now tracks pageviews by return readers to make it more relevant to our core audience. --Ed.) Post No. 1: Slideshow: Top Performing VC-backed Chinese IPOs – by Lawrence Aragon Post No. 2: Who Are The Most Influential VCs and Angels? Check Out This List – by Mark Boslet Post No. 3: Harris Williams, Known for Keeping its Senior Bankers, Sees 7 MDs Leave Since 2009 – by Luisa Beltran Post No. 4: Best and Worst of Venture – by Joanna Glasner Post No. 5: SecondMarket Looking Into Cutting Out the Middleman (VC Firms) – by Jonathan Marino Post No. 6: A Case Study In What Not to Do: America’s Biggest Company Goes Down in Flames on Twitter – by Connie Loizos Post No. 7: One Institutional LP on VCs Buying Up Secondary Shares – by Connie Loizos Post No 8: After Blippy, Pud Contemplates His Next Move – by Connie Loizos Post No. 9: NY Shop To Close Fund V At Hard Cap – by Bernard Vaughan Post No. 10: Apollo Shareholder Puzzle: Where Do You Fit In? – by Gregory Roth

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the posts written by our staff that garnered the most pageviews from March 14 to March 18. 1. Source: Seed-Stage Rounds Up 50 Percent in New York; Valuations Up 30 Percent LINK - by Connie Loizos 2. Scathing Report Details CalPERS Bribery Scandal LINK - by Gregory Roth 3. Who Cares About HCA? Silver Lake, KKR Make Five Fold Gain on Avago Investment LINK - by Luisa Beltran 4. KKR Kinda Sorta Talks Succession At First Ever Investor Day LINK - by Luisa Beltran 5. West Coast, East Coast Investment Rivalries Heat Up LINK - by Mark Boslet 6. Cleantech Far From Down And Out: 83 Funds Said To Be Raising $23.5B LINK - by Mark Boslet 7. Social Scene: Feld Shares TMI for Fitbit, Bathroom Humor at SXSW, 4 Birthdays Coming LINK - by Lawrence Aragon 8. Cleantech’s Nemesis: Consumer Awareness Still Lags LINK - by Mark Boslet 9. BrightSource Raises Another $122M As Speculation Of IPO Increases LINK - by Mark Boslet 10. Winning! or Losing? A Look Into the Super-Fund Movement LINK - by Connie Loizos

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Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the posts written by our staff that garnered the most pageviews from March 7 to March 11. 1. Disqus to Facebook: “We Aren’t Shaking In Our Boots” – by Connie Loizos. 2. Is Savvis Finally Up for Sale? Tech Co. Said to Have Hired Qatalyst - by Luisa Beltran. 3. Schwarzman, At $5.9B, Among Richest LBO Pros (Well Ahead Of Kravis) – by Steve Bills. 4. Summit Partners Raising $3B Growth Equity, $450M Venture Funds - by Mark Boslet. 5. Doerr, Moritz Make Forbes’ Billionaire List; Will They Make the Resurrected Midas List, Too? – by Alastair Goldfisher. 6. Israeli Venture Funds Raised Zero Dollars in 2010; The Situation is “Critical” – by Connie Loizos. 7. HCA Doesn’t Look So Bad. Here’s The Top 10 PE-backed IPOs - by Luisa Beltran. 8. It Took Two Years But Wynnchurch’s Third Fund Comes In at $603M – by Luisa Beltran. 9. This Anti-Registration Campaign Might Have Legs – by Bernard Vaughan. 10. Sequoia, Google Ventures Join $32M Round For HubSpot – by Mark Boslet.