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October 05, 2011

VC Investments in People (Video)

October 05, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/106000/video-top-vcs-discuss-finding-the-next-google/ On the wings of LinkedIn’s IPO, a panel of three top venture capitalists discussed the fast-improving IPO environment, grooming top tech entreprene...

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October 05, 2011

Outsourcing in PE Buyouts (Video)

October 05, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/103724/video-thomas-h-lees-scott-sperling-sees-opportuni... Scott Sperling, co-president of Boston-based buyout shop Thomas H. Lee Partners, this week said he sees continuing opportunities to buy compa...

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October 04, 2011

PE Vs. VC In Battle Of Compensation

October 04, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05OCT2011 from http://www.pehub.com/120783/infographic-pe-vs-vc-in-battle-of-compensation/ 2011-2012 Holt-Thomson Reuters Private Equity and Venture Capital Compensation Report That the buyout firms in the study manage more money, on ave...

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Finance, Socio-Technical
October 04, 2011

R&D Spending

October 04, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 04OCT2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21531002?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/r&dspending Israel spends over 4% of its annual economic output on research and development (R&D), according to the OECD, a rich-country think-tank. Nearly 80% of th...

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October 04, 2011

The United States of Venture Capital (Infographic)

October 04, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 04OCT2011 from http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/08/04/interactive-map-the-united-sta... While start-ups in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York receive the bulk of venture capital, and the most media attention, the money is actual...

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Finance, Socio-Technical
October 03, 2011

15 Companies Getting Crushed By European Austerity

October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03OCT2011 fromhttp://www.businessinsider.com/these-companies-are-going-to-get-crushed-when-eu-governments-stop-spending-2011-10 Overall, European companies generate 8% of revenues directly from government expenditure, according to a Morg...

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October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
October 03, 2011

Strategy for Uncertain Times

October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03OCT2011 from http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/2011_10classic.html Executives usually underestimate uncertainty to imagine a future precise enough to shape a discounted-cash-flow analysis. But in truly uncertain times, the r...

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Analytics, Security
October 03, 2011

Somali Pirates

October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03OCT2011 from http://tinyurl.com/3p39p8u (SeaIntel) Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean results in container shippers paying 1.8 billion USD in additional risk surcharges. With the monsoon coming to an end, the problem is likely to escla...

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October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Logistics-Transportation, Security
October 02, 2011

Emerging Economies and the Currency War

October 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03OCT2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21530992?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/onemoresuchvictory ...outflows have dragged down the exchange rates of almost every emerging economy since the beginning of August (see chart 1). Having spent much o...

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October 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
October 03, 2011

App to Manage a Mobile Workforce

October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03AUG2011 from http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220313 A third-party mobile app available on AT&T devices, including multiple BlackBerry, Motorola, HTC and Samsung smartphones, called TeleNav Track promises to provide even small busin...

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Socio-Technical
October 03, 2011

Chinese City Regulating Private Loans

October 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03OCT2011 from http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-china-loans-idUSTRE7920LT2011100... (Reuters) - The Chinese city of Wenzhou, an entrepreneurial city in the eastern province of Zhejiang, has set a legal threshold for interest ...

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Finance, Security
September 29, 2011

For Deals, Wall Street Goes East

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/special-topics/special-section-fall-2011/ The story of Wall Street in the emerging markets has been a long one, filled with twists and turns. Most recently, deal makers and big banks ha...

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Finance, Globalization
September 29, 2011

A Warning as Wall Street Moves Into Emerging Markets

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/special-topics/special-section-fall-2011/ Wall Street’s headlong rush into emerging markets could collide with the government’s push to fight corruption overseas. The Justice Department...

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September 29, 2011

Exploration of Frontier Markets

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/special-topics/special-section-fall-2011/ Wal-Mart... is the latest company from the economically stagnant developed world to seek growth in perhaps the last untapped area of internatio...

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September 29, 2011

Emerging and Frontier Markets (Infographic)

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 29SEP2011 from http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/29/business/dealbook/db-emerging-c...

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September 29, 2011

Think Globally, Deal Locally

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 29SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/special-topics/special-section-fall-2011/ As economic engines stall in the United States and Western Europe, private equity firms, corporate suitors and investment bankers are increasin...

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September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance
September 29, 2011

Private Equity Thrives Again, but...

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 29SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/private-equity-thrives-again-but-dark-... The private equity industry has emerged from a treacherous two years on relatively solid footing. Default rates among the companies they cont...

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September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 29, 2011

Mergers & Acquisitions Infographic

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 29SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/graphics-mergers-and-acquistions/?smid...

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Finance, Globalization
September 29, 2011

Wall Street Goes to the Ends of the Earth

September 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 29SEP2011 from http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/special-topics/special-section-fall-2011/ DealBook: For Deals, Wall Street Goes East section F - page 1 By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN DealBook: Chinese Policies Put Squeeze On the Banks section...

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September 27, 2011

Intel Capital Advances Software Ecosystem

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from http://tinyurl.com/3g4z9xl Sep. 8, 2011-- Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's global investment organization, today announced seven investments to drive continued innovation across the software ecosystem. The deals total ov...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Socio-Technical
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