Will Low-Cost Start-Ups Spur More Venture Capital Jobs?

May 31, 2010

Fifteen years ago it took some serious cash to help a fledgling tech company get off the ground. You need a few million dollars of seed money for hiring talent, office space, equipment, marketing and promotion.
But today the technology costs of getting started has dropped dramatically, reports Smartplanet.com Thanks to the rapidly shrinking costs of [...]

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Good News, Bad News for Private Equity Compensation

May 24, 2010

Private equity and venture capitals firms appear to have dodged one bullet this past week, while being winged by another.
The final versions of the House and Senate financial reform bills both exempt private equity and venture capital firms from having to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will help them avoid the more [...]

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Landing Private Equity Jobs

May 18, 2010

Private equity firms are as selective in their hiring as they ever have been. Even some of the largest firms are now only hiring a few new people each year.
The good news, for those looking to land private equity jobs, is that there is no background that is an absolute requirement. We said it before [...]

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Will Silicon Valley Remain the Venture Capital Job Mecca?

May 17, 2010

It’s been 40 years since high tech pioneers like Hewlett-Packard and Intel burst onto the scene and put Silicon Valley on the map as the global center of innovation and entrepreneurship. Today, the 60-mile long stretch from San Francisco to San Jose still attracts one-third of all venture capital invested in new businesses in the [...]

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A Key Private Equity Job: Due Diligence

May 10, 2010

Financial Advisor Magazine had an interesting glimpse into the extent of the due diligence that big institutional investors go through before taking a chance on a private equity deal.  If you work in private equity, better get ready for people peering into your private life. And if you’re thinking of getting into the business, it [...]

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Life Does Not Provide Rollover Minutes

May 3, 2010

What is the price of working in high-paying financial jobs? We studied hard in school, did the internship, went back to grad school and, with a little luck, landed a great job at the investment firm of our choice.
So, why do so many of us wake up one morning feeling like we have [...]

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The Downside of Job Hopping in Venture Capital

May 3, 2010

Mark Suster is a successful serial entrepreneur who sold a company to Salesforce.com and then joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner. Today, he focuses on early-stage technology companies and writes a popular venture capital blog, Both Sides of the Table.
Recently, Mark weighed in on the downside of job-hopping in the venture capital [...]

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Overcoming Setbacks in Your Private Equity Career

April 26, 2010

Few people have a straight and smooth trajectory to the top of their industry. Especially anyone working in finance over the last few tumultuous years. But how well you deal with setbacks can make a big difference in getting to the next level.
That’s the premise behind a new book from Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli, [...]

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Why Aren’t There More Women in Venture Capital Jobs?

April 19, 2010

That’s the question pondered by Janine de Nysschen, a business consultant and guest blogger for the New York Entrepreneur Week conference which took place last week in Manhattan.
In her article titled “Why Men Get VC Money and Women Don’t … and How That is Changing,” de Nysschen argues that nine times out of ten, the [...]

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Best Hiring Opportunity for Private Equity

April 12, 2010

So says Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive of JP Morgan Asset Management, who’s looking to beef up her firm’s private equity division in 2010. In a statement published by Financial News, she’s quoted as saying “This is the best opportunity in private equity for 25 years. We are interested in hiring teams for specific opportunities [...]

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