Discussing Life Sciences Trends at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and OneMedForum
This week, our life sciences team is heading out to San Francisco to attend J.P. Morgan’s 29th Annual Healthcare Conference, one of the life science…
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Challenges for Corporate CEOs in 2011
2010 was a trying year for every business. Even with the recent glimmers of economic improvement, 2011 will be no less challenging. I was recently…
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Capital Available
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Justin Lahart wrote an article titled “Companies Cling to Cash.” Justin reports that there is an increasing number of…
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Strong Diversification Strategy Can Thwart Grim VC Numbers
The data from Thomson Reuters/NVCA on venture capital investing over the past 10 years has sparked an onslaught of debate and media coverage highlighting the…
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The Current Competitive M&A Climate
As reported recently in The Wall Street Journal, companies are sitting on nearly $2 trillion of cash. As a result, shareholders are beginning to ask…
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IPOs: A Financing Event
On the heels of continued IPO activity, there has been a flurry of media coverage — both positive and negative — regarding the companies that…
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A Conversation with TechnicallyPhilly’s Sean Blanda
Last week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by TechnicallyPhilly’s Sean Blanda for the publication’s, “Friday Q&A” segment. Sean and I talked about a…
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Exit Environment and Valuations
According to new research published in this month’s Journal of Business Venturing, privately held businesses that start the initial public offering (IPO) process at the…
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Capital Formation as the Engine of Economic Growth
A lot of media and industry attention has been focused on one particular provision in Congress’s Financial Reform Act, which changed the taxation on “carried…
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