Comments on: Weakon 313: Private Equity

By: What’s the Difference Between Private Equity, Angel Investing, and Venture Capital? | Weakonomi¢s

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:13:12 +0000

[...] Greet BoxI know I know. I’m beating this stuff to death. But I felt it necessary to wrap up Weakon 313 and 314 with a summary post. Most of my ideas for posts like this come from my everyday [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:42:42 +0000

Hey Weakonomist,

I’d happily trade you a PB & J sandwich for all the private equity in weakonomics.com

Cheers,
From Josh

By: What Are Venture Capital and Angel Investing | Weakonomi¢s

What Are Venture Capital and Angel Investing | Weakonomi¢s — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:24:44 +0000

[...] about me and subscribe to the RSS feed for free updates from Weakonomics.com.Powered by WP Greet BoxWeakon 313 talked bout private equity (PE). In it I mentioned venture capital (VC) as a type of private [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:16:21 +0000

Just as an FYI, don’t assume private equity firms employ hundreds of employees. I think you would be surprised that a majority of the Private equity funds employ significantly less then 100 people and many less then 15. Now mind you, 10 of those will be “partners” with significant experience and about 5 support staff but outside of your large Blackstone, Cerberus and KKR, most are quite small. They just pay a lot of fees to lawyers, bankers and consultants.

While most people never have enough assets to invest in private equity funds, there is a simple way to invest indirectly (or directly) in private equity. Blackstone and KKR both went public so you can participate, which gives you more exposure to leveraged buy outs and mezzanine financing. Or you can buy shares in Cisco and Intel. These two companies fund more Private Equity firms than just about any other.
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