Private Equity
For Black Friday, we look at why print is in the red, how Apple was made green with envy and why the Jets make New Yorkers just plain blue.
1 min read · 23 November 2012
Andreessen Horowitz has bought its way into some of the biggest deals in Silicon Valley's recent history. And when the VC firm had an opportunity to invest in GitHub, sources tell peHUB, it went long and knocked other top-tier investors out of the bidding.
3 min read · 19 November 2012
Right now, taxation issues are at the top of the GP priority list (and, at the top of our reader favorites). The usual suspects--fundraising news and the peHUB Job of the Week--were also in the Top 10 this week.
1 min read · 19 November 2012
Kicking it off with the peHUB First Read today, we've got what's ailing the GOP, bad taste in dining, and the new "going postal" in 2012. Happy Friday, gang.
1 min read · 16 November 2012
Private equity pros talking about legislative remedies to their Capitol Hill problems said Tuesday at Thomson Reuters' Buyouts Texas didn't have a particularly sanguine outlook for the future. But, they insist, they've still got some options to put into play.
2 min read · 13 November 2012
Last night at the Londoner Pub in Dallas, Texas, dozens of peHUB and Buyouts readers joined together to raise hundreds of dollars for the American Red Cross relief campaign for Hurricane Sandy. We enjoyed oodles of local fare, as well as brews like Starporamen and Victory Golden Monkey.
1 min read · 13 November 2012
And the away team takes one! This week's top 10 posts were dominated by our guest bloggers--if you'd like to try your hand at it, try me at jonathan.marino@thomsonreuters.com--including newcomer Matt Stewart and one of our favorite new byline regulars at peHUB, Mahendra Ramsinghani. Take a look at our hits from the last week.
1 min read · 12 November 2012
President Barack Obama's re-election means four more years of worrying about carried interest taxation increases for private equity and venture capital firms. Unless, of course, the White House can wrangle a deal with a divided Congress to increase taxes sooner...
3 min read · 12 November 2012
Sheryl Sandberg dumps another slug of Facebook shares, one girl that really kicks butt at football, and the fear factor of the fiscal cliff.
1 min read · 09 November 2012
With more and more VC firms going late stage in hopes of netting big returns for LPs, it has been a rarity to see a venture capital firm in 2012 trying to raise capital to support an early stage biotech and life science fund. In fact, it is exceedingly rare to see one succeeding. But, about halfway to a target of around $60 million, what you see is what you get with Catalyst Health Ventures...
2 min read · 08 November 2012
