We seem to be getting to one of those frothy points in the cycle where public markets only seem to know how to go up despite the underlying conditions. Considering the rising valuations and seemingly widely available debt these days, Bison decided to have a look into the “distant past” at buyout funds raised during 2006 and 2007, the last time market conditions felt a little too good to be true. Read the rest of this entry »
What do you call a go-getter who likes to be in charge of things? A politician? A PE exec? Both are right!
That is why at Bison, we are not surprised by the media’s reporting of Tim Geithner joining Warburg Pincus as their President. The news may be a surprise to the February 2013 version of Geithner but he is not the first (and he won’t be the last) former politician to jump to the private equity world. Read the rest of this entry »
From the Research Desk…
With all the buzz about TWTR this past week, we decided to look through our database to see who has and will benefit from VC firms’ investments in Twitter. We have examined which pension funds were invested in the funds that were actively investing during the period when the GPs invested in Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
AngelList is having quite the fall – with a $24M funding round and big announcement about their crowdfunding platform, Syndicates – it’s no surprise that start-ups have flocked to the site to show their worth. Here is a checklist of things that you need for a killer AngelList page.
Check out our AngelList for an example.
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