Insights into Private Equity Careers and Venture Capital Careers

In the venture capital and private equity universe, valuations are what matter.  Valuations determine, at least on paper, whether fund managers are doing their job and thereby whether their performance justifies further investments.  Given that 2019 has seen a fair share of massive valuation increases, the question here is as simple as possible – Which […]

Venture capital (VC) investment is booming.  After a record year in 2018, many analysts thought 2019 would be a letdown.  There would be no way that VC could even come close to the massive 2018 investing.  Well, that view has changed.  A look at the state of VC activity in the U.S. follows. VC Pulls […]

When one thinks of a firm involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the idea of a startup generally does not come to mind.  Rather, when most people think of M&A, they likely think of large, multi-national corporations acquiring a company that has been through multiple rounds of funding and has proven successful at its craft. […]

The last couple of years have been good for the financial industry.  Financial industry employment is up 1.8 percent since the end of 2017.  Not the strongest growth rate – that title belongs to Natural Resources, Mining, and Construction at 5.8 percent – but stronger than Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, Retail Trade, and Information. The […]