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Private Equity FunCast
Your favorite GP's favorite podcast. Occasionally insightful, always entertaining. Deep dives into how private equity works, what happens after the deal closes, how money gets raised, and how companies get bought and sold. And everything in between with healthy doses of pop culture and humor. Straight from the team at ParkerGale Capital. For educational and entertainment purposes only. Not investment advice. Additional disclosures at www.parkergale.com.
Episodes
- Private Equity FunCast
Getting Sideways with Management
What happens when your relationship with management goes south? This episode is by request How do relationships between the private equity guys and management…
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Private Equity Lingo: The Podcast
As a follow-up to Devin's (surprisingly) popular PEHUB column from early August, Devin and Jim expound on the lingo inside a PE firm. This isn't sports talk or…
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Nadella's Public Strategy Letter
Devin and Jim talk about Satya Nadella's public strategy letter on the future of Microsoft aka "Bold Ambition & Our Core". How does this apply to the middle…
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Apple's Swift programming language
Jim sits down with Evan Delaney to talk about Apple's new Swift programming language, the pros the cons -- and whether companies should be jumping into the…
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Building your iOS application
Jim sits down with Evan Delaney to talk about approaches you can use for building your mobile applications on the Apple platform. Although we do get a little…
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Roadside MBA : Hiring your team
Devin and Jim sit down with Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Professor Michael Mazzeo to discuss his upcoming book: Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons…
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The Haiku Episode
A Series of PE Haikus for the sophisticated listener. A light-hearted conversation with Matthew Craig-Greene of Pivot Partners Ltd -- our Thursday gift from…
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Roadside MBA : Product Differentiation and Price
Devin and Jim sit down with Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Professor Michael Mazzeo to discuss his upcoming book: Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons…
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Roadside MBA - Introduction
Devin and Jim sit down with Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Professor Michael Mazzeo to discuss his upcoming book: Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons…
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The Mind of the CEO
Devin and Uber-Associate Kevin Fitzgerald sit down with Steve Julius, PhD aka "Dr. J" to talk about organizational behavior and team dynamics. Dr. Julius…
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Life and Times of a Private Equity Associate
We sit down with a real life Associate from a real life private equity fund. Removed from his natural habitat and placed in captivity in Chicago, Kevin…
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The Must React System
The FunCast spends an hour with "Must React" sales system founder Kraig Kleeman. Everything that you need to know about persuasion, sales transformation and…
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The Mid Roll Chat
The FunCast spends an hour with Macworld writer and podcast impresario Lex Friedman from The Midroll -- home of 130+ podcasts. Everything that you need to know…
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The Art (and Science?) of the LOI
The FunCast spends another hour with McDermott Will & Emery LLP Partner Ryan Harris breaking down an actual private equity letter of intent. We go term by term…
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Game of Pivots
Jim and Devin discuss the vaunted venture "pivot" and its applicability, or lack there-of in the private equity business.
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Forty Minutes With The Mad Scotsman
Jim trades programming barbs, tips and opinions with the guru of application development, Alan Williamson.
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Madness Márta
Devin and Jim don't follow college basketball, but they have cooked up their own version of March Madness.
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Parfait Sundae: Lending to Middle Market Companies
Bring out your debt! We've talked a lot about funding options for owners of mid sized companies but we haven't covered debt yet. Well, here you go. A detailed…
- Private Equity FunCast
Implementing NetSuite
Interview with Dirk Shimpach, President of goVirtualOffice -- a "NetSuite Solution provider and cloud technology advisor that helps companies find the Cloud…
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A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid
The FunCast spends an hour with McDermott Will & Emery LLP Partner Ryan Harris talking about the legal traps founders fall into when setting up their companies…
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Whaaaaaazup Microsoft
Microsoft isn't going away soon as an enterprise server and platform vendor. So there's little risk in building your server platform on Microsoft in the middle…
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WSJ's 2014 CIO Conference Review
What are the big boys thinking about tech? What are they worried about? Should you even care? We dive into the big ideas coming out of the recent CIO…
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Private Equity's Got Talent!
Do you want to know how private equity firms evaluate and develop talent in their portfolio companies? Join the PEFunCast team and Brad Simmons from Applied…
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Heuristics in Private Equity
What are the simple mental traps that PE investors fall into when making decisions about pursuing an investment. Think Daniel Kahneman meets Private Equity…
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Let's get vertical
PEFunCast Guest Ryan Milligan discusses investment returns for middle market technology companies and investing in vertical software.
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A Very Merry PeFunCast Xmas
It's our Christmas Spectacular! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you out there in the podcast ether!
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Curogen's Microsoft Dynamics AX Interview
Jim talks with Jesper Kehlet about Microsoft's Dynamics AX ERP software. We cover the main features and some tips and suggestions for a successful…
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It's a Private Equity Thanksgiving Charlie Brown.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our listeners!
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We got your due diligence right here!
Jim and Devin discuss the due diligence process for private equity acquisitions.
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Lessons learned for the Middle Market from the healthcare.gov launch
Devin and Jim talk about the problems with the Healthcare.gov launch and the implication for middle market companies.
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CTO vs VP of Engineering
Jim and Devin discuss the differences between the roles of Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President of Engineering for middle market companies -- with a…
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Big in Japan (Data)
Jim and Devin discuss the industry's latest buzzword trend "big data", and whether any middle market company really has a big data problem.
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Punch it, Chewie
The inaugural episode of the Private Equity FunCast. Devin and Jim talk about our plans for the show, and the three types of IT projects: Costs, Revenue or…