Andre J. Peschong

KKR’s decision to go public through a non-traditional method at this juncture in the market may be seen by some financial pundits as potential suicide but I am of the other camp and believe that the way KKR is structuring the transaction is brilliant. 

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In my day to day business of doing deals, I’ve noticed that an ugly term keeps coming up and people seem to wonder what it means.  I keep hearing the question, ”what is a clawback provision?”  It is an older term used in the financial world which basically means if certain pre-determined performance parameters are [...]

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While oil continues its meteoric rise into uncharted price territory, the real story is how this is playing out with consumers. Plagued by an anemic economy and the lowest consumer confidence index in the last 16 years, the people at the pump are being hit especially hard. When gas reached $3 last summer [...]

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I wanted to touch on the subject of Angel investing. It’s a side of the investment industry that I think is a mystery to many companies and entrepreneurs but can be highly influential. Why? Because with Angel investors you get a different mentality than institutional investors.
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Fear and greed are the only two motivations for action when playing in the arena known as Wall Street.  Fear of losing money or missing an opportunity, or just fear of making the wrong decision.  Greed is an all motivating factor just as Gordon Gecko said in the famous movie Wall Street “The point is, [...]

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I’ve had so much positive response and further inquiry about how angel investors are growing in popularity, I decided to compile some useful information.  For those interested in getting their wings, a great place to start investigating a fit is with the Angel Capital Association. Listing groups and information from a national to a regional level, [...]

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So far 2008 has been horrific for the capital markets. In fact, there could have been in a full blown meltdown on the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Day. The Asian markets decided that all of a sudden the sub prime crisis coupled with the economic slowdown was probably not going to be isolated [...]

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IR is a basic absolute for a company even considering being publicly traded. With all the costs associated with being a public company such as SOX compliance, legal, accounting, transfer agent fees, listing fees etc…  Why then would a company want to cut back or not have a full effort to effectively get the story [...]

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What happened to the old school traditional venture capitalist??  You remember the ones that actually invested in ventures, ideas, untapped markets and people.  These venture capitalists have over many years turned into just capitalists or better yet bankers.  If you look at the landscape of venture firms who are looking to invest at seed or [...]

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When the internet bubble popped back in March of 2000 there was a lot of lost footing and confusion, including a bunch of shell shocked venture capitalists, private equity guys and, of course, investment bankers who were walking around dazed, asking one key question, hoping to rescue their future… “What is the next big thing?”
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