May, 2023

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Godspeed-backed SilverEdge acquires engineering services firm Gardetto

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Columbia, Maryland-based SilverEdge is a cybersecurity, software, and intelligence solutions platform serving the U.S. defense and intelligence communities. The post Godspeed-backed SilverEdge acquires engineering services firm Gardetto appeared first on PE Hub.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company.

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The Stock Market is Not a Casino

A Wealth of Common Sense

A reader asks: Ben showed the numbers for U.S. stock positive returns over the long-term. How does the data look for global ex-U.S. performance? Fair question. Here is the data I showed in a recent blog post: Since 1926, the U.S. stock market has experienced positive returns: 56% of the time on a daily basis 63% of the time on a monthly basis 75% of the time on a yearly basis 88% of the time on a 5 year basis 95% of th.

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Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition

The Big Picture

Imagine you had a device that allowed you to peer into the future. You enter a subject matter into this machine, requesting a specific quantitative measure, and at a specific future time. In other words, Price and Date. The machine whirrs and spins, lights flash, bells ring, and out pops a chart showing a range of answers and their probabilities. You might imagine a machine like that would be worth a lot.

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JPMorgan to acquire First Republic’s deposits as US regulators step in

Financial Times M&A

Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country’s second-largest bank failure

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120,000

The Reformed Broker

Just wanted to take a moment to recognize the incredible work my media and research teams have been doing to propel The Compound channel past 120,000 subscribers this month. And that 120k is just a fragment of the audience because almost everything we do on video is also on the audio podcast channels too. For those who are new to what we’re doing at the Compound YouTube channel each week, below is the schedule of w.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld and was struck by how dramatically different location-aware mobile phones have made our day-to-day existence. The entire plot was based around no one having a phone in their pocket. Watching the characters leave answering machine messages for people (and miss them), use paper maps, and get lost on the way to a cabin made it all seem pretty dated.

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The Best Time to Buy Stocks

A Wealth of Common Sense

The top 10% own nearly 90% of the stocks. That’s the bad news. The good news is more people now own stocks in some capacity. That hasn’t always been the case. The 1929 crash that kicked off the Great Depression was a massacre. The stock market fell more than 80%. Plenty of people got wiped out but it wasn’t as widespread as you would think.

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Want More Jobs? Raise the Minimum Wage

The Big Picture

I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades. During that time, consuming lots of academic research, I reached a few logically supported conclusions. The least contentious of which is that modest increases in minimum wages increase economic activity and create jobs. But there are other surprises around the minimum wage.

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The Freedom To Innovate

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff. In my testimony, I explained to the DFS staff that the difference between the US and China is that the US respects the freedom to innovate: REMINDER: ANYTHING THAT CHINA BANS, INVEST IN!

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Five Things That Could Knock Nvidia Down

The Reformed Broker

Okay, it’s up 10,000% since May of 2013 and is now the best performing stock in America during the past decade. Everyone is obsessed. It’s the biggest story in the market this year. Cramer has now named a second family dog after it. Jensen Huang’s name is now in the mainstream alongside Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk.

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Healthcare data provider Medisolv snags investment from BVP Forge

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The investment will be used by Medisolv to accelerate its growth. The post Healthcare data provider Medisolv snags investment from BVP Forge appeared first on PE Hub.

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Business schools target executives’ green gaps

Financial Times: Moral Money

Sustainability barely featured in many senior leaders’ degrees but new courses are helping them catch up

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The Case For International Diversification

A Wealth of Common Sense

The United States makes up nearly 60% of the global stock market by market capitalization: The dominance of American stocks over the rest of the world wasn’t just a 20th-century phenomenon either. The performance over the past decade and change shows U.S. stocks winning hands down over our foreign counterparts: Many investors look at these numbers and wonder: What’s the point of owning international stocks i.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My end-of-week morning NFP train WFH reads: • Warren Buffett’s Formula for Success: One Good Decision Every Five Years : Berkshire Hathaway has obliterated the market in his 58 years at the company. He credits roughly 12 decisions. ( Wall Street Journal ) see also The 10 Greatest US Investors and the Virtues That Made Them : There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

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Funding Friday: Crowdfunding Restaurants Via Blackbird

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It has been a long time since I did a Funding Friday here at AVC. I used to do them every Friday. We have funded a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and bakeries here over the years. Here are a few examples. L’Appartement 4F Land To Sea There is a new wrinkle in crowdfunding restaurants, bars, coffee shops, bakeries, etc courtesy of USV portfolio company Blackbird, which I recently wrote about.

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JPMorgan Steals First Republic!

The Reformed Broker

Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Uber Earnings – “Based on data from Bloomberg, 262 companies in the $spx have reported, sales growth in 1Q is 4% and earnings growth is -2.69%” ►Cap Weighted Rules – “It’s rare for t.

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Generative AI in your dealflow; TA backs healthtech; family office survey

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TA invests in Alpha II. The post Generative AI in your dealflow; TA backs healthtech; family office survey appeared first on PE Hub.

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Norway’s $1.4tn oil fund to step up ESG proposals to US companies

Financial Times: Moral Money

World’s biggest sovereign investor to expand use of shareholder motions after successful trial

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The Biggest Asset Bubble in History

A Wealth of Common Sense

A reader asks: Big fan of The Compound from Japan! My mother (59 yo now and will be retiring in 8 years) is one of those people who doesn’t believe in putting money in the stock market because she’s afraid to “lose it all” – there are a lot of people in Japan who are still traumatized from the stock market bubble collapse in the early 90s.

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Press Pause

The Big Picture

At least they told us what they were going to do. As much as critics of the Federal Reserve have been up in arms over the fastest rate hiking cycle in modern history, no one can claim it to be a surprise. Jerome Powell & Co. have continually warned that they are aggressively fighting inflation with a 5% target. They said it in Fed minutes, they said it in pressers, they said it in speeches; we just took them figuratively, not literally.

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The Art of Storytelling & Story Listening

Indigo Marketing Agency

At the recent Jolt Conference , Director of Marketing Elizabeth Reider met one of our influencers, Dr. Preston Cherry , who shared the art of storytelling for financial advisors. Dr. Cherry discussed some great practices we think advisors can implement today when sitting down to meet with a current or prospective client. Active Listening When you’re meeting with a client or prospect, it’s their turn to share; you want to connect with who they are and where they are.

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The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here

The Reformed Broker

Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Einhorn, Burry, Buffett – David Einhorn and Michael Burry were buying regional banks in Q1. ►Positive Surprises – “This will upset a lot of gloom and doomers, but oh well” ►Wealth Transfer &#8.

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PE-backed 360training acquires two medical training and workplace safety providers

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360training is an online regulated training provider. The post PE-backed 360training acquires two medical training and workplace safety providers appeared first on PE Hub.

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The UK’s competition watchdog risks undermining business dynamism

Financial Times M&A

A decision by the CMA to block the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger has provoked debate about its role

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What’s the Best Long-Term Investment?

A Wealth of Common Sense

Each year Gallup performs a survey that asks a group of Americans what the best long-term investment is among the following options: Stocks Bonds Cash Gold Real estate These are the latest results: Real estate has been at the top of the charts for over a decade at this point but it saw a big drop from 2022 to 2023. Following the 2022 bear market stocks fell to third place behind gold.

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“No matter how you cut it, you’ve got to own Cisco” (2000)

The Big Picture

One of the core philosophical beliefs I hold dear is that the future is inherently unknown and unknowable. This tends to be true for the vast majority of people almost all of the time. The world is full of endless, random, often-invisible factors that greatly impact outcomes. Our own psychology works against our understanding this: Our hindsight bias allows us to see these unknowable results with perfect after-the-fact clarity; that fools us into believing our prior expectations turned out to be

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Philip Morris chief says group on path to becoming an ESG stock

Financial Times: Moral Money

Jacek Olczak argues shift away from cigarettes should prompt a rethink after wave of exclusionary policies

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Nvidia Breaks Away

The Reformed Broker

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Dror Poleg, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss Nvidia’s ascent, the AI explosion, the future of work, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods! Listen here: Apple podcasts Spotify podcasts Google podcasts Everywhere else!

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Amulet scoops up Alliance Clinical Network

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ACN will continue to be led by founder and CEO Anthony Abey, who will retain a significant ownership stake in the business. The post Amulet scoops up Alliance Clinical Network appeared first on PE Hub.

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How to buy a global $20bn company for nothing

Financial Times M&A

Japan is only theoretically fertile territory for stock market takeovers, as the Toyota thought experiment reveals

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The Housing Market Lottery

A Wealth of Common Sense

Financial success comes from some combination of hard work, discipline, patience and luck. That last piece is usually the biggest wild card. If you started investing in the early-1980s, you experienced 20 years’ worth of phenomenal returns from both stocks and bonds. If you started investing in the early-1960s, you experienced 20 years’ worth of rising rates and inflation which led to muted stock and bond retu.

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Inflation Expectations Are Useless

The Big Picture

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve spend a lot of time worrying about Inflation Expectations. They shouldn’t. Sentiment surveys in general are mostly useless (except at the extremes). They aren’t merely lagging, backward-looking indicators, but instead, tell you what the public experienced 3- 6 months ago. Beyond short-term extrapolation, they have little to no ability to provide insight into intermediate-term (6-12 months) inflation.

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UK fund giant L&G bets on Ecuador’s Galápagos debt experiment

Financial Times: Moral Money

Britain’s biggest asset manager buys $250mn of bonds in a sign of growing investor interest in debt-for-nature swaps

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