Andre J. Peschong

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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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?”
When […]

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(the naked underbelly of funding deals) By all accounts 2007 was a record year for raising capital, not only for venture funds but also private equity funds.  VC’s raised just shy of $35 billion in 2007, just missing the high mark of $38 billion in 2001.  Interestingly enough, in 2001 the economy and the market had […]

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