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The Entrepreneurs – City of London are holding a free, interactive event on raising finance for businesses on 17  April 2012, commencing 6pm at the City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street – by the Guildhall. The event will have experts with extensive, in-depth knowledge of venture capital, business angel and other alternative sources of finance, the […]

I am keen to encourage a group of European VCs to visit the Pittsburgh Venture Fair this coming September. My connections with Pittsburgh go back many years from posting over there with PwC in the mid-1980’s for 3 years and subsequently meeting my future wife, Kathy, who is from Pittsburgh. I have kept up the visits and […]

The new 2010 edition of “A Guide to Private Equity”, authored by myself, was published by the BVCA earlier this year. The guide explains in layman’s terms how the private equity investment process works. In 1992, when I was a member of the BVCA’s then Information Committee I suggested that they should have a guide […]

In my consulting role I see many, very senior people who express an interest in working in some way in the private equity field, most as CEOs in private equity backed companies. So what qualities are needed to work in such companies? First the candidate must have in-depth specific industry sector experience. They ideally should have […]

Extracts from comments I made at the Intertrade Ireland Private Equity Conference in Belfast earlier this week in my presentation on Early Stage and Technology Venture Capital Investing and whether 2008 will see some major changes in the sector – see www.equityconference.org  Investments by European VCs are on the increase. The latest data for 2007 from […]