Dynamo™ Venture Capital Edition is a venture capital-specific software platform that optimizes the productivity of fundraising, deal management, accounting, and investor relations teams. Dynamo’s™ configurable venture capital software empowers your venture capital firm to identify ideal investors, hit your fundraising goals on time, invest in the best deals, manage your portfolio, and keep your investors happy. Typically deployed as a Cloud-based platform (although other hosting options are available), Dynamo™ is designed to be implemented easily across any office environment. The software’s direct integration with the Microsoft Office® suite and leading back-office software provides your firm with a consolidated, end-to-end operational software solution. Dynamo™ clients work closely with a dedicated project manager to ensure that the functionality and presentation of the venture capital software aligns with your operational structure and each team’s unique priorities, and also incorporates the terminology of your firm. Firms utilizing Dynamo™ Venture Capital Edition benefit from a software platform that supports fluid compatibility with external systems and data providers.
Dynamo™ consolidates all qualitative and quantitative data in a unified repository that enables you to architect and deliver fundraising campaigns, identify investment opportunities, track portfolio financials, and roll up portfolio data to investor reporting. Dynamo™ accepts data from general ledger software such as Quickbooks™, streamlining the data needed to complete your fund accounting. Formal data integration partnerships with Pitchbook and Preqin, among others, enable you to sync your subscribed data feeds in Dynamo™.
Dynamo™ Venture Capital Edition’s robust relationship tracking features, supported by intuitive integration with Outlook® and the Microsoft Office® suite, optimize deal pipeline management and facilitates comprehensive due diligence by automatically placing imported data into relevant profiles. Visibility across your deal team is ensured by the ability to create notifications and reminders for specific users during important stages of deal processes. Your venture capital firm benefits from Dynamo’s™ comprehensive pipeline reporting that provides your entire firm with a complete picture of ongoing deals.
Dynamo™ Venture Capital Edition is an adaptable software platform for maximizing the value of your marketing and fundraising team’s strategic initiatives. The qualitative characteristics of prospective investors are tracked within the Dynamo™ CRM to and deliver targeted fundraising campaigns through the Mail Merge wizard or integration with Mailchimp®. The Dynamo™ Fundraising Portal also allows your firm to deliver PPMs, pitch books, performance data, and other marketing collateral within a branded digital hub. Your venture capital group can also leverage the Portal to monitor unique user interaction with the posted materials, facilitating opportunistic reach out that can convert passively interested investors into active opportunities. Dynamo’s™ calculation engine addresses critical accounting processes associated with venture capital firms’ partnership accounting. The software can generate calculations and allocations for capital calls, income items, distribution realized and unrealized gains, and expenses in the same centralized platform as your qualitative relationship data.
Dynamo™ Venture Capital Edition’s partnership accounting features generate and distribute capital account statements and balances, as well as export your partnership accounting data to Excel.
This book is good, primarily because it has no real competition as so little is written on the subject. It provides a brief introduction to private equity in the first few pages and goes into case studies thereafter, with a few 'notes' re: private equity in between the case studies. Case studies are useful for getting a 'feel' for how the private equity process works if you are (i) an investment banking analyst or other professional planning to make the jump into a private equity analyst/associate position or (ii) an MBA student who wants to understand or jump into a private equity associate position. So for doing that, I'd give it a 3-star 'good' rating. I rate it a 3 because, while it largely succeeds in its own stated goal of being a 'case book', it fails to do what the only real text book on private equity should be doing: analyzing the profession in terms of: (i) its evolution, (ii) strategy re: the private equity group, (iii) strategy re: the private equity group's portfolio companies, (iii) its effects on the economy, employees, government/taxes, society (iv) comparison of the private equity ownership structure vs.
Other ownership structures (e.g. Public corporations, owner-operated companies, conglomerates, wealthy family holding companies), (v) analysis of private equity critcisms, (vi) alternative forms (e.g. SWFs, IFC), (vii) developing markets, and (viii) future. Academics seem to find themselves oddly content not to discuss this industry in any real depth. I believe part of this has to do with their involvement in somewhat unobjective, case study oriented MBA programs that take a 'cookie cutter' approach to educating their students, but I digress. 5 stars, if Lerner does what he should do and makes a private equity book that is analytical and forward-thinking.
I couldn't put this book down; I felt like I was reading a captivating novel. It does a great job of introducing the reader to the unique terminology of the VC/PE industry. However, I wish there was more follow through or structured questions presented for the cases; without sitting in Prof. Lerner's class, I would like to see exactly what broad lessons he is attempting to present and drive home. This book was a disappointment. A real textbook would actually have instruction.
This book is merely a collection of cases, with a few scattered chapters on VC/PE. Only buy the book if required to for a class. This book provides a good overview of venture capital and buyout fund management. It addresses the investment process through four modules: fundraising, investing, exiting, and new frontiers. There are twenty nine chapters of which nine are instructional and the rest are case studies.
Though there is information interspersed within the case studies, I think it would have been better to have had shorter case studies and longer instructional pieces to delve more deeply into subjects. The book is quite good,but suffers from the case approach pitfalls- too much details for specific cases, and less generally applicable information. Thsi might be useful in the context of an MBA case study class, but certainly not as a useful reading book on the industry. The actual notes are very short and lack suficient details to be useful. A must for anyone wanting to know how VC firms work, structure themselves, and considerations for funding.
This is an excellent case study that ought to be in a graduate program! It's as close as you'll get without working for a VC firm. I would suggest reading 'The Venture Capital Cycle' first to get a general feel for VC and how it works.
Then read the case study! Want examples of how funding works? Want to know how Venture firms set up their business? Want to know everything about practical application of VC firms? This may be as close as you'll get without actually working in one.
This ought to be a text book in graduate school. I'd suggest 'The Venture Capital Cycle' as the first book to get an overview of VC's. Then, read this one and you'll be pretty proficient in terms of being an outsider. Great Case Study! Over the past few years the institutional private equity market has exploded.
Riding on the backs phenomenal public markets and a wave of technological innovation, private equity in general and venture capital has become one of the most sought after investments. However, given the rash of recent publicity, stellar performance, and a balooning assets, there's surprisingly little research available about the institutional private equity market. Lerner and Gompers currently account for probably half of all academic research in this market. The institutional private equity market is quite different from angel investments. The majority of the capital at the institutional level flows from large investment institutions like public pensions, endowments and insurance companies. Moreover, the personal investing into private companies do so professionally. More than anything, the book serves as a primer to the institutional private equity market.
The book was intitially meant for HBS and other MBA students. Thus, almost all the content is in case study form. In a lot of respects this is advantageous. In general, a book either has the option of being a primer or providing high level analysis on a very specific topic. Clearly this book is the former. In my opinion, the downfall of most primers are the oversimplification of topics and useless generalizations.
Given the early stages of the institutional private equity market, generalizations are especially questionable and difficult. On the other hand, the case method presents users with numerous situations and predicaments facing the participants. As a result, readers gain an understanding of the issues facing this market from a number of perspectives. This books provides useful information on key topics such as investing and analyzing private equity funds from an institution's perspective, fund of funds, forming a private equity fund, and the direct investments into companies by the private equity funds, along with many other topics. Whatever level the private equity professional is functioning, understanding each of these components I imagine is key. This casebook provides an very good overview of the institutional private equity market.
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Likewise, to the best of my knowledge, this is the only book covering this topic. As an investor in small start ups, I had to read this book twice. The first read, the book didn't seem relevant at all. The second, somewhat more methodical read, the picture became clearer-The book is written for MBA students who think they might go to work someday for a firm that forms venture capital investment groups. That's nice, if you are thinking of working for a big venture capital company.
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Vietnam. Description Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry, and reviews and applies key ideas of corporate finance. The 5th edition continues to explore a wide variety of valuation approaches; from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years.