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On the Job With Simple As… My Research Process. How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio | Mission Silver. How The Economic Machine Works - Ray DalioDalio began investing at age 12 when he bought shares of Northeast Airlines for $300 and tripled his investment after the airline merged with another company. Dalio received a BA from Long Island University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He is also called as a Steve Jobs of Investing. He practices the Transcendental Meditation technique. Economics 101 - Ray Dalio, Founder of World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates explains economy in the most simplest and most interesting way. This video is a must see for anyone and everyone who wants to understand how economy works. Sell your business on your Terms. Sell your business on your Terms.

Negotiating Employment with a “Private Equity” Firm – 7 Surprises to Expect > Sklover Working Wisdom. “We’re all in this alone.”- Lilly Tomlin ACTUAL CASE HISTORY: Fourteen years of hard work had paid off for Enrique: he’d risen to Executive Vice President of a privately-held firm that was one of the country’s largest providers of continuing medical education for surgeons. He was number two to the firm’s founder, and the only non-family member among the senior-most executives. Enrique was considered by all to be a good prospect to run the company one day. The founder, who was 64, had been speaking of retiring for some time.

One Friday morning, in a private meeting with the firm’s founder, Enrique was notified that the family had decided to sell the company to a “private equity” [sometimes called "PE"] firm, a company that invests the capital of pension funds, endowments, trusts and wealthy individuals in companies with an eye to revitalizing them so they can later sell them or take them public at a large profit. Jeffrey A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Always be proactive. . © 2011, Alan L. Teten & Farmer: VC & PE Funds’ Best Practices in Sourcing Investments. Would you invest in a company that only sold to 1 out of 80 leads? Or a company that typically took one year and three professionals just to close a single client? In fact, you’ve already made that investment: in your private equity or venture capital fund. According to our data, the median investor in private companies reviews over 80 opportunities in order to make one investment.

The median private equity fund required 3.1 investment team members to close one transaction in one year. Exhibit 1:Median Pipeline Size Necessary to Close 1 Deal By the standards of most traditional sales processes, private equity origination is a very inefficient and labor-intensive process, despite the fact that an effective deal origination process is fundamental to successful investing. We recently completed the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, published in full in the Winter 2010 issue of the Journal of Private Equity. 1. 3.

Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street Crime. In the fall of 2003, Anil Kumar, a senior executive with the consulting firm McKinsey, and Raj Rajaratnam, the head of a multibillion-dollar hedge fund called Galleon, attended a charity event in Manhattan. They had known each other since the early eighties, when, as recent immigrants, they were classmates at the Wharton School of Business, in Philadelphia. Their friendship, intermittent over the years, was based on self-interest rather than on intimacy. Kumar, born in Chennai, formerly Madras, India, was fastidious and morose, travelling at least thirty thousand miles a month for work, and seldom socializing.

Rajaratnam, a Tamil from Colombo, Sri Lanka, was fleshy and dark-skinned, with a charming gap-toothed smile and a sports fan’s appetite for competition and conquest. Kumar was not among the group whom Rajaratnam took on his private plane to the Super Bowl every year for a weekend of partying. “I’m a consultant at heart,” Kumar liked to say. “I’m a rogue,” Rajaratnam once said. Understand How Products Impact Stock Prices.

Private_equity. Tony Scott, Ben Smith: So They’ve Offered You The CEO’s Job. Here’s What You Need To Know Before Jumping With Joy. So you’re in the running for the CEO’s job at a startup. Already a creeping sense of uncertainty has set in as you prepare for the next interview. What do you need to know about the company?

What rocks do you need to peek under? Senior executive changes are happening with increasing frequency in today’s vibrant technology market. Seasoned managers move from one early-stage company to another, and from established companies and venture firms into the startup world. If you’re in line for a CEO’s gig or another senior leadership role at a pre-IPO company, you’ve got a lot to think about. Remember the company and board have been trying to put the best shine on the emerging business. We suggest sitting down with every board member and with members of the team.

Here are several specific suggestions: First, any prospective CEO candidate should ask for the most recent board decks. You may think you’ve found the world’s most wonderful opportunity. Everything You Wanted to Know About Credit Trading, But Were Afraid to Ask | TF Market Advisors. Markets have become far less volatile than last year, but many investors remain focused on the Credit Markets for signs and cues as to the next move.

With so many people looking to moves in credit markets and trying to determine how successful an auction has been, I thought it would make sense to go through some examples of how credit trades. At one extreme you have a real market like for the E-mini S&P futures. That trades from Sunday at 6pm EST until Friday at 4:15 EST. It is virtually continuous and at any given time you can see the bids and offers of the entire market. I will look at some examples of how European CDX Indices trade, a Single Name CDS trades, what an Investment Grade Bond New Issue looks like, and how a block trade in High Yield bonds work. This is a work of fiction and none of the banks or people mentioned represent real banks or individuals (even if you know who you are).

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