How Much Is Your Company Worth?
October 17, 2008
After a string of rough years and falling values for private companies, here’s some good news: Now just might be the best time to sell a business that we’ve seen in quite some time.
Why? Jay C. Jester, marketing director of Audax Group, a Boston-based private equity and mezzanine firm, explains that many private equity companies and venture capital firms raised money for investment funds with capital-deployment time limits several years ago, and now the clock is ticking ever closer to midnight. “There’s a ton of private equity with a fuse on it,” Jester says. “You’ve got pent-up supply and pent-up demand coming together. There’s activity in just about any sector you can think of.” read more
Can CUIL compete with GOOGLE?
July 28, 2008
Pronounced “cool”, the launch of new search engine Cuil.com is the next in a line of many who have tried to slay the Google beast. Cuil does have some serious competitive advantages, like 120 billion indexed pages (about 3x that of any other search engine). Designed by ex-Googlers Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costollo, and two engineers Russell Power and Louis Monier, the team thinks they finally have Google beat. read more
Top 10 Small Business Owner Woes
July 23, 2008
The National Federation of Independent Business has recently released a report on the top 10 matters that plague small business owners. read more
Felix Dennis – How To Get Really, Really Rich
July 15, 2008
Felix Dennis is the founder of Maxim Magazine, along with a number of other publications. In his new book, How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets, Dennis shares some of the secrets that made him a near billion dollar man. He’s preaches that becoming successfully rich involves not working for anyone but yourself.
Inc Magazine interviewed Dennis at his New York offices.
For a book called How to Get Rich, you spend a lot of time dissuading potential entrepreneurs from trying. You say I’ll need to get used to groveling and failing, and I’ll need to be so driven, it may put my marriage at risk or hurt my relationship with my kids.
It’s kind of a crazy thing to decide that you’re going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn’t suit everybody. I warn people throughout the book that if you’re not driven by this desire, you really shouldn’t try. It will lead to a lot of heartache and a lot of sacrifice — and not just you doing the sacrificing.
Private Equity Is Not Dead
July 13, 2008
Here’s an article in Conde Nast Portfolio about the livelihood of private equity. Overall, in a study by Earnst & Young, “private equity owners create more value than their private counterparts.
Angel Investors Guide
July 4, 2008
They are the true believers in the world of start-ups. Inc Magazine presents a guide on searching for and courting these diamonds in the rough.
Inc Magazine Angel Investors Guide
Also, check out Jason Nazar’s Guide to Raising Money for a Startup Company. Jason is the CEO of Docstoc.com, an online community for document sharing.