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There's an impedance mismatch between them and the health of the middle class, but I'd have to toss in the private equity investors too. That's a different topic for a different list or a blog, but as they are a force in our industry that culls and selects the opportunities for development, their selection criteria have to be factored into any 'predictions'. I suppose one could make a case for the VC as the antagonists of the bigCo acquisitions from the point of view that companies in the business acquire another company with an aim to exploit its assets (products, clients, IP, employees) through sales or to take them out of the market; whereas, a VC doesn't want to own a business, they want to recoup investments quickly to concentrate investor wealth. The Warren Buffet school believes in the moat of complexity as a barrier to competitors and that often takes the form of a patent. The private equity investor is a different animal; they want to acquire assets by leveraging them, thus a high rate of return on debt service or a straightforward acquisition of liquid assets such as cash on hand derived from leveraging assets such as intellectual property lawsuits. The claim that these PE investors possess special magic juju for managing technical companies into prosperity is false on the face of it: they only acquire healthy companies with marginal sales (eg, why is 14% a magic number for investors over say a comfortable 8%). Note that none of these are about development of technology and even less about a services-based business unless they are backed up by some obvious advantage in a fast growing market that is a distinct disadvantage to a competitor. It is about fast wealth accumulation. Not a good predictor for the health of the middle class. len From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...] i'm over vc's. in case noone noticed there's an impedance mismatch between them and most of our industry.
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