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Time to catch up on your reading. Here are the 10 most popular posts among peHUB’s regular readers for Oct. 3 to Oct. 7.
One: Slideshow: UTIMCO in 17 Active Funds with IRRs > 25% - by Lawrence Aragon
Two: Union Square, Other Early Stage Tech VCs Kick Ass for UTIMCO (slideshow) - by Lawrence Aragon
Three: Slideshow: European Fund-of-Funds Build Up U.S. Offices - by Angela Sormani
Four: Slideshow: PE-Backed M&A Jumps in Q3 and Here’s the Top 5 Deals - by Luisa Beltran
Five: Slideshow: More LBO Targets in the CRO Market - by Bernard Vaughan
Six: Promising Portfolios: Asset Values Top Contributed Capital In Recent Cal Regents Venture Funds (Slideshow) - by Mark Boslet
Seven: Infographic: PE vs. VC in Battle of Compensation - by David Toll
Eight: How Will You Remember Steve Jobs? - by Lawrence Aragon
Nine: Comvest Group Lands $580M Fund - by staff
Ten: A Pension Fund Does Away with the Middleman: the VC - by Connie Loizos
It's Friday! Time to catch up on your reading. Here are the 10 most popular posts among peHUB's regular readers for Sept. 26 to Sept. 30.
ONE: Bottled Up Liquidity: Ten Cal Regents Funds with High Portfolio Values and Often Low Liquidity (slideshow) - by Mark Boslet
TWO: Slideshow: Top-Performing PE/VC Funds For State of Florida (subscribers only) - by David Toll
THREE: Analyst: Groupon Now Risks ‘Self-Reinforcing Path to Insolvency’ - by Connie Loizos
FOUR: After F8, a Dot-Com Boom Scaled Party - by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
FIVE: Harvard and Stanford Nearly Make Up Financial Crisis Losses - by Gregory Roth
SIX: As Groupon’s Fortunes Shift, Chicago Sticks By It - by Connie Loizos
SEVEN: Carlyle’s Sarkozy: The Financial Crisis of 2008 Never Ended - by Luisa Beltran
EIGHT: Andreessen’s Jeff Jordan On Valuations, IPOs And Young Founders (subscribers only) - by Mark Boslet
NINE: CapitalSource Revs Up Lending in Middle Market - by Steve Bills
TEN: Reuters: Groupon Restates Revenue, Loses COO - by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
Time to catch up on the stories your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Sept. 19 to Sept. 23.
One: Trouble Making Ends Meet: Top 10 Cash Returning Funds In Cal Regents’ Venture Portfolio (Slideshow) -- by Mark Boslet
Two: Slideshow: Face Scrubbers, Balloon Trips: 16 at CalPERS Face Fines for Alleged Gift Violations (subscribers only) -- by Gregory Roth
Three: Slideshow: Q3’s Most Active Buyers -- by Bernard Vaughan
Four: Slideshow: Top-Performing PE/VC Funds for State of Florida -- by David Toll
Five: Wringing Money from a Flagging Venture Fund — for a Price -- by Connie Loizos
Six: Blackstone Looks to Advise Startups -- by Luisa Beltran
Seven: Pressure on Solyndra Backers Intensifies -- by Roberta Rampton, Reuters
Eight: Soros, Schwarzman Move Up On Forbes 400 Richest List -- by Luisa Beltran
Nine: Obama Pitches Changes to Carried Interest; PEGCC Rebuts “Buffett Rule” -- by Luisa Beltran
Ten: MassPRIM Loses Second PE Manager -- by Gregory Roth
Since you're not working (hopefully) this Labor Day, why not catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB last week? Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.
1. Slideshow: Top And Bottom-Performing Funds Of Louisiana Teachers’ (subscribers only), by David Toll
2. Slideshow: University Of California’s Recent Venture Investments Include The Expected And Unexpected, by Mark Boslet
3. Slideshow: PE Firms Chowing Down on Restaurants, by Jonathan Marino
4. Groupon PR to peHUB: Call Us Before You Write Another ‘Nastigram’, by Connie Loizos
5. Slideshow: Top 10 VC Funds for What’s Shaping Up as a Weak Q3, by Lawrence Aragon
6. Slideshow: Pre-IPO Preview Of Carlyle Group Returns, by David Toll
7. Groupon’s August Gets Worse, as Analysts Call Valuation “Colossally Absurd”, by Connie Loizos
8. The No. 1 Predictor of Startup Failure: Premature Scaling, by Joanna Glasner
9. Cash Machine Slideshow: CalPERS’ Top 10 VC Funds Based on Return of Cold, Hard Cash (subscribers only) by Mark Boslet
10. SEC Alleges Former VC Matt Crisp of Adams Street Partners Responsible for Conflicts of Interest and “Willful Violations”, by Jonathan Marino
It’s time to catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 22 to Aug. 26. Hot topics included fund returns at CalPERS and Louisiana Teachers', VC- and PE-backed IPOs and M&A, and Apple.
1. Cash Machine Slideshow: CalPERS’ Top 10 VC Funds Based on Return of Cold, Hard Cash -- by Mark Boslet
2. Slideshow: Top 10 U.S. Tech/Telecom Advisors, Qatalyst Jumps To 10th -- by Luisa Beltran
3. Looking Back at Our Favorite Apple Knockoffs -- by Connie Loizos
4. Slideshow: Top And Bottom-Performing Funds Of Louisiana Teachers’ -- by David Toll
5. Black Gives Himself 60th Birthday Party of Bad Taste -- by Luisa Beltran
6. Slideshow: Top 10 PE-Backed Companies Waiting To Go Public (subscription required) -- by Luisa Beltran
7. Stock Market Turmoil Not Expected to Hurt Tech M&A -- by Lawrence Aragon
8. Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures Stand to Gain from Redemption Rights for eHarmony -- by Alistair Barr, Reuters
9. Cornell to Stanford: Stay Out of New York -- by Connie Loizos
10. What Today’s 4 IPO Filings Tell Us About the Market for New Offerings -- by Joanna Glasner
The roiling stock markets have all but closed the IPO window, but tech M&A activity should continue to be strong through the rest of the year. So says Rob Fisher, leader of PricewaterhouseCooper’s technology M&A group in San Jose, Calif. Fisher has worked in tech M&A for 14 years, so he’s seen his shares of […]
It's time to catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19. Market turmoil was top of mind for our readers, with a top 10 list of PE-backed companies stuck in the IPO pipeline scoring the most pageviews. Other hot topics included a slowdown in fundraising for funds-of-funds, "Googorola" and performance data.
1. Top 10 PE-Backed Companies Waiting To Go Public - by Luisa Beltran
2. Fundraising Gets Even Slower for Funds-of-Funds - by Lawrence Aragon
3. Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982 (subscribers only) - by David Toll
4. Six Buzzworthy Emerging Managers - by Bernard Vaughan
5. A Slowdown for Most Active VC Firms in July (subscribers only) - by Alastair Goldfisher
6. Welcome to the Family, Motorola! - by Jonathan Marino
7. Gap Between Top And Bottom Performing Private Equity Funds Widens; Comparison By Vintage Year - by Mark Boslet
8. With Motorola Mobile’s Sale, Quattrone’s Qatalyst Scores Largest Deal Ever - by Luisa Beltran
9. And the Winner of the Google/Motorola Naming Contest Is … - by Lawrence Aragon
10. Neuberger’s Dyal Fund Blurs Line Between PE and Hedge Funds - by Gregory Roth
* Poll: Most Believe Market Turmoil Is Only ‘Temporary Setback’ For IPO Candidates, by Lawrence Aragon
* peHUB Second Opinion 08.12, by Luisa Beltran
* This Week’s Top 10 HUB Posts Focus on Market Turmoil, Fund Performance and Silicon Valley’s ‘Undertaker’, by Lawrence Aragon
* Slideshow: A Slowdown for Most Active VC Firms in July, by Alastair Goldfisher
* Value of PE-Backed Tech M&A Jumped 60% in Q2, by Luisa Beltran
* Jay Jordan: Re-Install Glass-Steagall, China’s Dangerous Shadow Banking System, S&P’s Credibility and Other Ruminations , by Bernard Vaughan
* VCJ Report: Photo Shopping, by Alastair Goldfisher
* NY Life Capital Raising $1B Fund For Mezz, by Steve Bills
* Life Sciences Venture Investing Represents 7th Best Quarter On Record, But All Is Not Blue Skies, by Mark Boslet
* Market Downturn Is Good if It Makes VCs More Selective About Companies They Take Public, by Lawrence Aragon
* Dealtalk: Crisis May Scuttle $2B+ in Euro M&A Fees, by Victoria Howley and Simon Meads, Reuters
* Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures Joins Others in BrightTag Funding , by Jonathan Marino
* Poll Results: John Doerr Is Ready for Reality TV, by Luisa Beltran
* Google, Facebook in Social Gaming Throwdown, by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
* Slideshow: Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982, by David Toll
* peHUB First Read, by Jonathan Marino
Time to catch up on the peHUB stories your colleagues found most compelling this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. It isn't terribly surprising that most of the posts were related in some way to the turmoil in the public markets this week.
1. Early Stage Funds Dominate CalPERS’ Top 10 Venture Funds, by Mark Boslet
2. Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: ‘We’re Anticipating a Major Fallout’, by Connie Loizos
3. Groupon, Zynga and 9 Other VC-Backed IPOs Threatened by Market Turmoil, by Joanna Glasner
4. LinkedIn, Solazyme, Zipcar, 33 Other VC-Backed IPOs Bloodied in Market Beatdown, by Lawrence Aragon
5. Idaho Public Employee Retirement Top-Performing Funds (subscribers only), by David Toll
6. Menlo Ventures Is Biggest Winner in Carbonite IPO, by Lawrence Aragon
7. Venture & PE Picks for a Double Dip, by Joanna Glasner
8. Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982, by David Toll
9. How This Year’s 10 Biggest VC-Backed IPOs Fared in the Market Plunge, by Lawrence Aragon
10. Reuters Exclusive: Khosla Loses 2 Partners; Alex Kinnier to Do Startup, Jim Kim’s Plans Unknown, by Sarah McBride and Peter Lauria, Reuters
It turned out Tuesday was just a brief respite. On Wednesday Today we were back in the the business of a market sell-off. Besides the public companies that got a haircut, the tumultuous market also dashed the hopes of six of the 12 companies on the docket to go public this week. Then, Thursday, the market surged back, with the Dow up nearly 4 percent.
On Tuesday, three companies postponed their offerings, including 3-D motion-sensing company InvenSense Inc, a VC-backed company that hoped to raise $99.8 million.
On Wednesday, another three companies postponed, including two VC-backed startups: employee benefit program provider WageWorks, which held off on a $49 million IPO, and medical services provider WhiteGlove, which tabled