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Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.   Goodbye Testa Hurwitz About an hour ago, the hammer officially fell on legendary Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. After failed talks with several potential acquirers, the partners held an early morning meeting in which they voted to disband. The […]

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Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.   In Memoriam Some tragic news from the St. Louis venture community, as David Bergmann of Advantage Capital Partners has passed away at the age of 55. He had been successfully rescuing one of his dogs from a local pond, when he […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Got to Run… No time to chat this morning, due to an unfortunate confluence of car troubles (trusty Pontiac to the rescue of wife’s Volkswagon), in-law airport pickups and last-minute holiday shopping. Why oh why can’t Christmas come more than once a […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.   Friday Feedback The sun is shining, the trade deficit is at an all-time high and none of Trump’s fired apprentice candidates took their live TV opportunity to chide The Ego on his recent casino bankruptcy. In other words, it’s time for Friday […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.    Pull Yourself Together I spent some time on the phone yesterday with Steve Barrett, who joined law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault less than two months ago as its chief marketing officer. The subject, of course, was that his new home […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.   Friday Feedback Greetings from Boston, where our skies are cloudy, our tunnels are leaky and our Wall-Marts are overrun with unsold Elmo dolls. In other words, it’s time for Friday Feedback. No real theme this morning, just a bit of sweet-smelling […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.    No Fund-Raising Slowdown in 2005 Coller Capital this week released its first Global Private Equity Barometer, which surveyed institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia. It found that 43% of respondents plan to increase their exposure to private equity next […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.   Random Ramblings Just a few quick notes as we wait for either Sequoia Capital or Kleiner Perkins so sell some of their “unlocked” Google shares. 1. David Hornick of August Capital has an interesting post on the VentureBlog site right now, […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email.       Friday 11/12   Friday Feedback The air is cold, the Big Dig tunnel is full of leaks and the un-trusty Pontiac has begun making a sound reminiscent of fingernails on a chalkboard. In other words, it’s time for Friday Feedback. Almost […]