This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

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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American Investment Council

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Today, the Financial Times published the following op-ed from AIC President & CEO Drew Maloney discussing how FTC Chair Lina Khan’s aggressive and misguided regulatory agenda threatens the growth and stability of the US economy by unfairly targeting productive private equity investments. Maloney also highlighted private equity’s essential role in directly employing 12 million Americans, building better businesses, and strengthening the retirements of millions of retirees.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There’s this guy on Twitter, Paul Fairie, who does these threads using old newspaper clippings to show how the stuff we worry about today is the same stuff people have been worrying about for decades. There was one called a brief history of we are raising a generation of wimps. Every older generation thinks this (and will always think this…it’s called progress).

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We spend way too much time trying to predict the future (especially this time of year). Rather than engage in futility, let’s look at the coincident indexes in all 50 states over the past 3 months, via the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (October 2023). Note: I have been occasionally eyeballing this map since 2008 , and it does a good job of showing the overall trend of the economy (on an obvious lag).

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Financial Times M&A

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

EQT, Cinven and General Atlantic among those involved in take-private deals for businesses floated two years ago

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Entrepreneur - VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the new book "Write Your Own Business Plan," business expert Eric Butow breaks down how a solid business plan can save your startup during those tough early days.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Here are some things I believe about investing. 1. I believe simple beats complex. The problem is simple is much harder to implement because complex will always sound more intelligent and appealing. 2. I believe the timing of buy or sell decisions matters less than your holding period. Picking tops and bottoms is for the lucky and the liars. Patiently holding onto your investments is more important for most investors than.

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Financial Times M&A

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Blackstone and Apollo executives talk up scope to expand into private credit and infrastructure investing

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“I need the US Dollar to be a store of value between the time I make it until I spend it, invest it, pay my taxes with it, or give it away. It does that splendidly.” 1 Today, we’re going to look at a perennial (un)favorite #chartfail. To be more precise, I want to discuss the type of chart that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of money, currency, spending, investing, and taxes.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

Who needs a theme park when you have Wall Street. Over the trailing two years, we've watched the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) , widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) , and growth-dominated Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) , roar to new all-time highs, plunge into a bear market , and regain their luster, once more.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 14, 2023

In the last few years, the Cardano blockchain gained solid positions in the blockchain market. The key factors of Cardano’s success are the special scientific development process and the wide list of companies working on Cardano blockchain. Cardano has gained popularity through such companies as crypto exchanges, wallets, trading platforms, and node providers, which give […] The post Cardano Blockchain to Blow The Crypto Market appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Reformed Broker

JULY 4, 2023

You know Hancock and Washington and Franklin and Jefferson. You might even know Greene and Knox, Henry and Hale. And we know you know Hamilton, pretty tough to escape that one these days! But it is very unlikely that you know the name Haym Solomon. This is unfortunate, because he’s the guy who arranged financing to keep the Continental Army alive during its darkest days, finding the money to keep the revolution goin.

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Investment Writing

JULY 6, 2023

If you feel frustrated by coming up with topics for your financial blog, the journalist’s five Ws and one H can help. Below I share a list of 20 topics inspired by the five Ws and one H. As you brainstorm topics, think about how you can solve problems for members of your target audience. This will make your posts relevant to them. For help with this, read “ WHAT PROBLEM does this blog post solve for them?

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Blackstone News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

JV will deliver approximately 500 megawatts of IT capacity across three Tier 1 metros in Europe and North America Austin, TX and New York – December 7, 2023 – Digital Realty ( NYSE: DLR ), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Blackstone Inc. (NYSE: BX) announced today that Blackstone-affiliated funds led by Infrastructure, Real Estate and Tactical Opportunities have agreed to establish a joint venture with Digital Re

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Insight Partners

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SEO and content are two of the most important marketing channels used by Insight’s portfolio and forward-looking founders are starting to ask us questions about the impact of generative AI on search results. Our team has been researching the topic, and we believe the impacts will be significant. GenAI will have a transformative effect on users’ search experience, and there will be myriad second-order impacts of that change in the scaleup ecosystem.

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Entrepreneur - VC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Beyoncé celebrated her birthday by urging fans to wear silver to her concerts during Virgo season. The request sparked a surge in sales for many small business owners. Read more about the Renaissance World Tour's economic impact, here.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

APRIL 28, 2023

Your LinkedIn headline is a 120-character “hook” that appears right under your name on your profile and in search results. Similar to a newspaper or magazine headline, yours should be catchy, interesting, and easy to read. Your headline is your opportunity to capture interest and invite users to learn more about you. You may not realize that headlines show up along with your name during an active search, meaning that as I type into the LinkedIn search bar, profiles and their corresponding headli

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A Wealth of Common Sense

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Robert Kiyosaki wrote one of the most-read personal finance books of all time — Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I read it early on in my career. It never really did it for me but I can see why people latch onto the allegory he shares about learning the right financial habits. It’s a good thing to get people interested in personal finance because no one teaches you this stuff.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Regulators and politicians are focusing on the accuracy, transparency and potential for conflicts of interest with sustainability scores

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No, “ nearly half ” of $94.5 billion in retail inventory losses in 2021 was not “attributable to organized retail crime.” That line is just another in a long series of falsehoods put forth by the professional b *s at the National Retail Federation. Here’s Reuters : “The main lobbying group for U.S. retailers retracted its claim that “organized retail crime” accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis.

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Financial Times M&A

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Split between managers that can raise money and those that cannot will lead to consolidation, predicts Partners Group CEO

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alias Technology, a San Francisco, CA-based applied AI company creating social media applications leveraging generative media and multi-modal AI systems, raised $3M in Seed funding. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, and joined by Next Coast Ventures, Maveron, Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, and WS Investments, among others. The company intends to use the funds […] The post Alias Technologies Raises $3M In Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Reformed Broker

MAY 17, 2023

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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Financial Times - Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Kate Shiber says Centerview Partners improperly fired her over sleep requirements necessitated by mental illness

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Blackstone News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

$11.00 Per Share Purchase Price Represents 61% Premium Over 90 trading-day VWAP SEATTLE, November 29, 2023 – Rover Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROVR) (“Rover” or the “Company”), the world’s largest online marketplace for pet care, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion.

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Mr. Money Mustache

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Well, looks like it has happened again. Since the last time we spoke, I got sucked into building my 17th(?) kitchen, and I have finally emerged from its messy yet addictive grasp as I stand here at the new breakfast bar, typing this report to you. Why am I so hooked on this strange pastime? And more importantly, why am I so excited to tell you about it, when most MMM readers probably don’t have house building at the top of their list of life priorities?

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Entrepreneur - VC

JUNE 14, 2023

Businesses are fragile. In fact, only 25% of new businesses survive 15 years. Why do small businesses fail? There are many reasons that a company might fail, including a lack.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2023

Polestar Automotive (NASDAQ: PSNY) hasn't impressed investors since its public debut last June. The electric vehicle maker went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and its stock opened at $12.98 on the first day. But today Polestar's stock trades at about $4. Like many other SPAC-backed EV makers, Polestar drove away the bulls by overpromising and underdelivering.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 13, 2023

Last year was one of the worst years ever for financial markets. Call it recency or loss aversion or some other Daniel Kahneman bias but for some reason, our brains are hard-wired to assume big losses will be followed by additional losses (just like we assume big gains will be followed by additional gains).1 The thing about big losses in the stock market is sometimes they are followed by big losses…but sometimes t.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

DECEMBER 26, 2023

France’s stipulation for its sustainable ISR label could lead to billions of euros of divestments by pan-European vehicles

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“If you want to read a moral condemnation of crypto theft, you can get that anywhere. You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.” – Matt Levine Michael Lewis’s new book “ Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon ” came out this week. I got a copy earlier after signing an NDA that I would not disclose anything about it until after the publication date, which was Tuesday, October 3rd.

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Financial Times M&A

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Premier League club joins forces with US alternative asset manager as it looks for ways to boost revenue

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FinSMEs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Duckbill, a Boston, MA-based maker of an execution engine that gives people a personal assistant combined with AI’s efficiency, raised $33m in seed and Series A funding. The round was led by Forerunner Ventures, with participation from Greycroft Partners, Inspired Capital, General Catalyst, G9 Ventures, Red Antler, uture Back Ventures by Bain & Company and […] The post Duckbill Raises $33M in Seed and Series A Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“When I see a bubble forming I rush in to buy, adding fuel to the fire. That is not irrational.” – George Soros, 2009 I’ve spent 25 years watching, trading and investing in the stock market. The repetition of patterns is amazing. In every generation we see new bubbles, which form when a new innovation comes along and everyone gets excited about the future.

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