When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations?
In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction that deal flow in the U.S. will drop below the impressive levels it has achieved in recent years, the expert voices of a panel discussion tackling “Opportunities and priorities in a sluggish economy” hold true to their panel title, expressing optimism at the opportunities that present in a down market.
From manufacturing to distribution and even food processing, all kinds of industries are facing tough decisions about how to continue in the current economic climate. That means opportunities for investors, and that’s just in the U.S. Abroad, particularly in Asia, there’s still a healthier climate for deals. About deals in Asia, Peter Berger, managing director at SAC Private Capital, says, “That’s where the dealflow is”
So, what’s going to happen? If we’re in the “eye of the storm,” as CCMP Capital Managing Director Jonathan Lynch says, then “it’s going to get worse.” But with an “inexhaustible supply of bad management,” even the so-called good times keep turnaround investors like Raquel Palmer at KPS ...
The private capital markets are in an intriguing position. The economy is sluggish after last year’s sub-prime mess and major buyout firms have not seen a lot of action. That was expected. But the middle markets have only dropped off slightly. In this podcast John Morris, assistant managing editor at ...
Join BearingPoint director Joe Monti to explore the Enterprise Performance Solution and how it can affect your organization’s bottom line. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, people are focused on cutting costs and saving money. In an effort to ...
Yuri Ammosov, a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of venture capital and high tech development programs, talks with me about how Russia is flush with cash thanks to the rising energy prices (they are one of the world’s leading oil producers) and are working with ...
In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the ...
Jeremiah Owyang interviews Rey Ramsey Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the One Economy Corporation multi-national nonprofit organization that brings broadband to the homes of low-income people and provides a multilingual web portal called The Beehive. This interview takes place at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland ...
CEO of PodTech Network, John Furrier interviews Cammie Dunaway the CMO of Yahoo on the topic of Internet Strategy. Web 2.0 Social Media marketing has arrived. Leading marketers are re-engineering their practices to include more online components to reach customers.
Learn from Cammie as she ...
A beautiful day in the park, a free homemade meal, some free clothes and books. What could be better? The Really Really Free Market, as opposed to the not-so-free Free Market, breaks down the myth of scarcity and encourages us to take advantage of the abundance all around ...
Max Levchin (Slide.com/PayPal) during the Supernova 2007 Conference was a speaker on Dark Matter: Are We Missing the Real Internet Economy? Among topics like the real financial backbone of the Internet, Max also brings forward the infancy of new market monetization. The iPhone platform works with ...
It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches computer science at Stanford University. Translation: he’s smart and ...
“Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.” That’s the new mantra in India. Everybody is talking about infrastructure because it is a key bottleneck holding up the rapid development of the Indian economy point out investors, entrepreneurs and the people of India.
Luis Miranda, CEO and president of IDFC Private Equity, one of ...
Beijing as a backdrop was more than symbolic for IDF in 2007. Intel does more than manufacture in China. The company does some heavy research and it plans to do more around mobility and Tera-scale chips. Although Intel has held IDF for years in Beijing, this time it came with ...
As host of The Next Gear, I get to meet people who are trying to bring about postitive changes in the automotive industry. Many of the people I meet are entrepreneurs whose inventions have the potential to change the world, and many of these people are using their own money, ...
Cleantech Venture Network is a group of venture capitalists dedicated to finding investments in “clean” technologies. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cleantech Co-Founder Nick Parker about the organization’s vision in New York.
The Cleantech Forum XII is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...
Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...
TiE Delhi’s annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was ‘Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth’ and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference sessions, the agenda also included networking sessions, interest specific ...
Entreprenuership is increasingly becoming big in India. However, there aren’t many events that allow entrepreneurs to showcase the working prototypes for the world. Here comes PROTO to fill that void.
Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive concrete office blocks housing an overwhelmingly large part of Pakistan’s business — well over one third of the economy comes out of this bustling city of 12 million. It also has a vibrant arts and culture scene.
What do VC’s want in India? What kinds of companies are VCs looking to fund in India? India is an emerging market for all kinds of services, and one of the biggest opportunities is in the telecom and mobile space. Since the start of 2006 a handful of start-ups in the telecom and mobile space have received investments of about $10 million each. Every month since March 2006 over 4 million new mobile subscribers are being added in India.
In a conversation with Guy Kawasaki about Small is the New Big, Seth Godin compares the role of storytelling and customer dialogue in marketing.
A great example of story telling and customer dialogue is Tesla Motors’s blog entry by Elon Musk, eBay co-founder, CEO of SpaceX, and Tesla ...
Howard Anderson of the Yankee and Battery Ventures delivers an edgy and dynamic look at the future roles of India and China in the global economy of the not too distant future, and the history of global business culture in Asia and America.
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Steve Forbes’ first ever podcast in a PodTech exclusive. I traveled to New York City to sit down with Steve in his office to talk about flat tax, politics, world economics, blogs, podcasts, and social media. This interview is timely given the recent cover story by Forbes and ...
Sandy Berger the former National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton and sat down for a podcast at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit to talk about the intersection between technology, national security, and the globalization of economies and government.
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