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 4 to April 8.

Post No. 1: Slideshow: Top 10 Largest VC Funds Raised in Q1

Post No. 2: Slideshow: Monster VC Rounds Grow Bigger and Bigger

Post No. 3: Carlyle v. Blackstone: A Contrast In Confidence

Post No. 4: You Sold Your Company! Too Bad It May Take Another 8 Months to Close

Post No. 5: Another Ray of Sunshine for VC Fundraising: Ex-USVP Partner Raises $35M for New Fund

Post No. 6: In Bizarre Twist, LPs Praise Venture Asset Class, See Strong Future

Post No. 7: Exclusive: Embattled American Apparel Is Exploring a Sale

Post No. 8: ARAMARK-able Dividend for PE Investors

Post No. 9: Exclusive: King Bolts Irving Place to Start Culpeper Capital

Post No. 10: Midas List is Back; So is Status for Industry Big Names

John Hadl has joined U.S. Venture Partners as a venture partner, focused on consumer Internet and business services opportunities. He is the co-founder of USVP portfolio company Total Beauty, and will continue to serve as CEO of mobile advertising company Brand-in-Hand. USVP also announced that former BeVocal CEO Mikael Berner is joining as an entrepreneur-in-residence.

Tim Connors has left U.S. Venture Partners, which he first joined nearly a decade ago. He’s no longer listed on the firm’s website, although a cached version shows that recent board seats include 4info.net, Blekko.com, Guidewire Software, Media6Degrees.com, M-Factor.com and Right90.com. VentureWire reports that he’s forming a new firm focused on early-stage investments in business [...]

Faye Pairman has joined U.S. Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence. She is the former president and CEO of onetime USVP portfolio company 3ware Inc., which was acquired by Applied Micro Circuits.

But you already knew that, didn’t you?

Only five people on Forbes’ list of 400 Richest Americans this year are venture capitalists. If you don’t count the ones that also made money elsewhere — Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, and Carl Edwin Berg, who built a commercial real estate business with John Sobrato in Silicon Valley — there are only three.

John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins slid down this year’s list — his net worth dropped to $1 billion from $1.6 billion so he’s number 346. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures slid off — last year he was worth $1.4 billion, but his net worth must have dropped to below $900 million, which is this year’s bottom. (A lot of people lost money in the global financial crisis, but maybe Khosla’s been investing his money in clean tech companies.)

On the other hand, two venture capitalists made the list who didn’t last year, maybe because the bottom is $400 million lower.

Per Dan’s post this morning that early-stage VC shop CMEA Capital has scrapped plans to raise a $500 million green growth fund, the firm also has gotten more aggressive about seed-stage investing. It started the strategy 18 months ago after it raised its $400 million seventh fund, according to managing director Faysal Sohail, who spoke to peHUB earlier this month.

“We’ve been given a lot of opportunities that normally would have gotten funded by angels and others but have not been getting funded,” he said. “We’re also finding a lot of deals coming to us from returning entrepreneurs.”

CMEA has done seven seed investments from Fund VII so far and may do one more, because, Sohail said, “they take longer to bake and exit so these are not deals you want to be doing

U.S. Venture Partners has promoted Ted Maidenberg to the position of principal. Maidenberg joined USVP in 2006, with a focus on business- and consumer-facing software and services. He currently sits on the boards of Media6Degrees and Savings.com.

Bruce McWilliams has joined U.S. Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence. He is the former CEO of miniaturization technology developer Tessera Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA).