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Make Your Meetings Suck Less: Here’s How

10 Reasons Sherlock Holmes Is The Ideal VC

Wharton PE Conference Notebook: VC Panels

Bain Capital Ventures Raises Fund, Hires Operating Partner

LPs’ $400 Million Vote of Confidence: Redpoint Ventures Raises Fund IV

New Fund Performance Data from UTIMCO

“The Bachelor” Dumped by Facebook Employee

Notes on the Pantheon Ventures Acquisition

Dear FDIC, It’s Been Six Months… How About Those Bank Deals?

Is Sequoia Interfering with Portfolio Company Firesale?

Tesla CEO Took Private Jet to Washington D.C.

Freeman Spogli & Co. Chipping Away at Fund Six

Teens in Tech: They’re Here, They’re Young, Get Used To It

Did Owen Van Natta’s Social Skills Fail Him?

A Few Surprises About the Year’s Biggest Take-Private

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Tesla’s Pitch to the Public: “Fund our DOE Debt”

Boston VC Will Kohler Makes His Move

ThisNext Goes Shopping, Buys Stylehive and Raises $1.2M

Buyouts South: Sun Capital on its Fund Size Reduction

David Turner at Guardian Life: “There Has to Be a Fire in the (GP’s) Belly”

Quote of the Day

New York Shindig Photos

Cognitive Dissonance Meets PE Fundraising

Seth Gardner Goes from Cerberus to the Academy

Q&A with Prophet Equity on Raising an Oversubscribed Debut Fund

CIA Agents Search for Corporate Dirt

100 Bankers Advise on How to Get Your Companies Public This Year

One Year In, How Would You Grade Obama?

M&A Madness

Apax Must Be Glad Its Psagot Deal Isn’t Closed

Report: Markstone Reaches Settlement with Cuomo

HIG Capital Raising Bio-Focused Venture Fund

TheFunded’s Version of the Midas List

Talking Private Equity Scandal

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PE Debt Watch (Upgrades and Downgrades)

Q&A with TrialPay CEO Alex Rampell: “We could have had a lot more revenue if we’d done more in this sleazy market”

Deal Scoop: Vistaprint Buys Threadsmith.com

Founder Spotlight: Siqi Chen of Serious Business

Fundraising Updates: vSpring, Weathergage, Golub Capital…

KKR’s Navab: Media Opportunities Abound

A Lost Generation of Entrepreneurs?

Papa Murphy’s Auction Heating Up M&A Marke

Erik Hirsch: “GPs Are Essentially Service Providers”

Broadcom’s Henry Nicholas is Having a Very Good Day (Finally)

Pet PR Peeve: Don’t Call It “Rumors or Speculation”

Screw the Superbowl; Go Skiing

M&A Monday (On a Tuesday)

Vestar Capital Leaves Japan

The Case for Private Equity Registration

NY State Common to Emerging Managers: “We Have a Placement Agent Workaround”

Energy Efficiency Prediction For 2010 Already Coming True

Behold: Apple’s iPad, the New Newton

Leon Black Supports Change To Carried Interest Tax

Is Carl Icahn Feeling Better About Motricity? And About His Son?

Quote of the Day: Secondary “Line in the Sand”

Rising “Clouds” Within The VC Downturn

Yelp Helps Kill the IPO Market

VC Adam Dell, Not Too Busy For Padma Lakshmi?

Tagg Romney’s New Firm To Close Fund Above Target in Coming Weeks

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Atlas Venture Reorganizes, Fred Destin Heads To U.S.

Early 2010 – Calling A Turn In The Economy

Is The Tug-of-War Between VC and M&A New? Or Even Real?

M&A Monday (on a Tuesday)

Malcolm Gladwell Must Be Stopped

Which Kraft-Cadbury Divestitures Can PE Snack On?

Is There a Tipping Point in VC?

Polaris Venture Partners Scales Back for New Fund

Vancouver Venture Firm Is In The Game with EA

Brad Briner on Fundraising: “The Problem is Not the LPs, It’s the GPs”

Book Report: Green Metropolis

Kleiner Does 14 Deals in December, Sign of A Turnaround?

PEC (Bitterly) Calls “Leverage” On Kraft

Reviews Are In: TTR Execs Are As Cool As the Other Side of the Pillow

PE Barons Are No Longer Filthy Stinking Rich

Venture Capitalist Running for Rhode Island Treasurer

Charterhouse Sells Supplement Platform, Plots Next Fund

What Obama’s Proposal Could Mean for Private Equity

Founder Spotlight: Brightroll’s Tod Sacerdoti

Venture Capital: Who (Not What) Is Broken

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peHUB Returns to New York – Shindig in Three Weeks

Enhanced Equity Raising Fund Two

Video Q&A With Accel’s Jim Breyer

Blackstone Will Raise Year’s Largest & Most Underwhelming Fund

Roark Capital Cools to Financial Services, Cuts DeAngelo

Kleiner Perkins In the Media Spotlight

TA Associates In Hyperactive Mode This Year

Do FDIC’s Private Equity Guidelines Apply Or Not?

Unleash Entrepreneurs From Obamanomics To Create More Jobs

PE Debt Watch (Upgrades and Downgrades)

Why Invest in oneforty and the Real-Time Web?

CalPERS Dumps A Ton of Docs

CalPERS Doc Dump Part 2

Laundry Room Chronicles: Chatting CalPERS

A New Stewart Alsop?

It’s Official: The Secondary Market Slumped in 2009

Cleantech Investor? We Need Your Insights

Founder Spotlight: Grockit’s Farbood Nivi

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Exclusive: Larry Schloss To Be Named NYC Chief Investment Officer

Mmmwaahahaha: VCs Carefully Plot Their CES Strategies

Ex-FCC Chair Kevin Martin Launching PE Firm

PE Fundraising Falls 61%, Lowest Total Since 2004

DoE Lays Out New Rules for Geothermal Drilling

Ten VC Predictions for 2010: Outrunning The Bear

PE Deals Down 43% in 2009, Lowest Year Since 2002

VC-Backed IPOs Up, M&A Down in 2009

Indian VC/PE Investment Drops in 2009

Hello There, Handsome Devils

Venture Capitalists Climb “Pill Hill”

Schwarzman Not Exactly Helping PE’s “Gun Slinger” Image

Former AIG Investments Coming To A Fundraising Market Near You

The VC-Backed IPO Pipeline

Events of the Valley

Behind the Screens: Q&A with the Technical Lead of Zynga’s Mafia Wars

Tax Story: VC Carry vs Founder Equity

Cressey & Co. Creeps Toward Lowered Target With Latest Close

Q&A on Riverside’s Big Fundraise

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Insider Trading Taints Private Equity (Again)

More Pain in the Portfolio

Dangers Of Relying On Government For Cleantech $

Q&A With Marlin Equity On the Fundraise of the Year

Zynga Poised to Exploit Global Keiretsu

How To Build Your Startup – Or Not

Schwarzman Gets a Lump of Coal for Dirty Energy Plants

What Does Stanford’s Non-Sale Mean?

Memo to Congress: There are Legal Issues With Taxing Carried Interest as Ordinary Income

Hoffman Unleashes His Optimism at TEDxSV

Top-Performing Private Equity Firm? Try Leonard Green

BDCs and Their Fees

Errors Reported In Canopy HSA Accounts

Another CEO Indicted For Wire Fraud

Elevation Partners: We’re Not Fundraising (Yet)

Does Deloitte Not Understand FAS 157?

Midweek M&A Madness

Gellert Leaves VC To Launch GateGuru

Message Received: RingCentral CEO Likes Cloud Computing Phone Systems

2009 Private Equity Timeline

Ghosts Of Chanukah Past

From GP to LP: “Moving Up The Food Chain”

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The Year in Private Equity Quotes

Another Sign That VCs Are Getting More Active

First Round Capital’s Got Talent

Thiel to Speak at TEDxSV About Singularity

Audax Mezz Fund in Market, But Where’s the Close?

Oh, The Places You’ll Go (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)

House Votes To Boost Tax On Carried Interest

Startup Board Stress Remains Prevalent

Another Pay-to-Play Resolution Falls Short

Step Aside Pay-to-Play, Timothy Durham Has Redefined Sleaze in Private Equity

Apple Downloads LaLa

So How Was The White House Jobs Summit?

Is Black Friday Syndrome Invading The Secondary Market?

An Annual Tradition: Onset’s Holiday Card

Survey Says: Dealmakers Dour on Present, Optimistic on Future

Twin Bridge Capital Buys Our Love With Best Holiday Gift Ever

Follow The FTC’s Privacy Roundtable

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Trust, But Verify

MDV Caps 3 Annex Funds, Raises Total of $127M

Entrepreneur Success Story

Canopy Financial: More Indictments Coming

Broidy is Guilty – What Does It Mean For Markstone?

Q&A with an SBIC Expert

Here’s The SEC Complaint Against Canopy

Cuomo To Announce Pension Fund Development

Venture is Back, Baby

5 Qs with Tax Attorney Shahzad Malik

Blackstone Group, the Misunderstood Teen

Foundation Medical Raising $150 Million For Device Companies

Midweek M&A Madness

Happy Holidays – Smith & Tinker Cuts Staff

American Capital Plan Approved by 95% of Lenders

StockTwits Raises $3 Million, Looks To Evolve Into Full-Fledged Financial Media Company

Smart Meter Lawsuit: 2009 Was Not That Hot

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Apollo Amends IPO Filing, Discloses New Performance Figures

Weekly Downgrade Wrap-U

Companies Led By Women Are Greener

From the Filings: VC Deal Scoop

As India Rises, Silicon Valley Falls Behind

HBS Biz Plan Winner Gets Venture Capital Funding

Triton Partners Raises $472 Million

Another Ad Acquisition For Google

Third Quarter Deals Had Lowest Deal Multiples in Six Years

Surprised, BookRenter.com Rushes Out Funding News

Reid Hoffman to Speak at TEDx Silicon Valley

New Jersey’s Investment Freeze is Frozen (For Now)

Are “Commoners” Overvaluing Twitter and Facebook?

Investors Dig Into Hot Potato

While Others Freeze, Marlin Equity’s Fund Is On Fire