Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Investment Trends: Baby Boomers and Gen Xers Team Up to Solve World Problems

One generation invests in the next to fulfill idealistic business models
The private sector continues to be a more reliable funding source than government grants
By Kemila Velan

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Angel Journal on June 30, 2006. We thought we’d highlight it today in order to show how prophetic it was…and ominous.
Baby [...]

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Laurie Yoler Highlights Investment and M&A Trends in Energy Efficiency

This speech was transcribed at the CalCEF Angel Network Meeting March 10, 2009
Laurie Yoler, Managing Director for GrowthPoint Technology Partners, provided an overview of her firm’s recent analysis of the investment trends in energy efficiency and the state of the mergers & acquisitions market. See EthicalMarkets.com for an aggregation of news media covering the Energy [...]

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Soapbox: why women managers shine

Guest Article
By Michel Ferrary, Financial Times
Published: March 2 2009 00:12 | Last updated: March 2 2009 00:12
Global stock markets have been collapsing since the beginning of 2008. Analysts and economists are now looking for companies that are resisting the crash.
My research project on companies from the French CAC 40 stock exchange index* pointed out that the [...]

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009