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Blackstone, BC and PAI Chase Iglo Group in $3.2B Auction – Sources
Blackstone, BC Partners and PAI are into the second round of Permira’s auction of Europe’s biggest frozen food company, but Bain and Clayton Dubilier & Rice did not make the cut, Reuters reports.
Obama Campaign Steps up Bain Attacks on Romney
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Monday stepped up its criticism of Mitt Romney for cutting jobs when he was a business executive, despite a warning from a leading Obama supporter that the attacks have gone too far.
New Poll: Who’s It Gonna Be – Romney or Obama?
You’d think Gov. Mitt Romney could capture at least 90% of the vote on a website called “PE” Hub, but one day into our latest poll he’s captured less than 60% of the votes from peHUB readers.
peHUB Second Opinion 5.21
Second Opinion includes Cory Booker comes to the aid of private equity, Google’s buy of Motorola will include lots of layoffs and what’s smaller than Mark Zuckerberg?
Google Was Smart to Friend Cornell: Updated
While Cornell builds its new applied sciences school on New York’s Roosevelt Island, Google will let the school use one of its buildings on Eighth Avenue to house its students. It’s easy to see how Google could profit handsomely from its “gift.”
Resume Fraud: How We Can Learn from the Yahoos of the World
peHUB gets a guest contributor in Joelle Scott, who says there are a lot more things CEOs and corporate boards need to watch for, than just a resume omission/embellishment.
First Reserve, with 13th Fund, Look to Raise $6 Bln
First Reserve hopes to get lucky with its 13th fund.
Siegel Leaves Mohr Davidow To Head GE’s Healthymagination
Siegel joined Mohr Davidow in 2007 and led investments in molecular diagnostics, digital health and health care related enabling technologies. She presently sits on company boards including at On-Q-ity, RainDance Technologies and Navigenics.
Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
I teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia. For the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps this year I’ll also teach ~150 teams led by professors who want to commercialize their inventions. Our extended teaching team includes venture capitalists with decades of experience. The irony is that [...]
Moritz Eases Back from Sequoia Capital After Being Diagnosed with “Rare Medical Condition” – Reports
Legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz is stepping back from the daily management of Sequoia Capital due to a rare and incurable illness, Moritz wrote in a letter to the firm’s limited partners, according to multiple media reports.
Facebook Faces Tough Test after Modest Debut
The fun part may be over–Mark’s married now–but Facebook still has plenty of work ahead of it as the company looks to get some Monday morning pop.
Maximilian Schroeck, David Mes: Venture Capital’s “J” Curve Becomes A “W”
Bid farewell to the Venture investment “J-curve,” the notion that a venture fund has to suffer through negative returns in the early years before progressively yielding positive returns and generating liquidity in the outlying years. These days, VC funds and their investors have to deal with an even more challenging reality: a “W-curve.”
