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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Mergers and Inquisitions

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

Mergers and Inquisitions

With the craze over renewable energy and infrastructure over the past few years, we’ve received more and more questions about Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance. And yes, coincidentally, we have a new Project Finance & Infrastructure Modeling course. social infrastructure (hospitals, schools, etc.),

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How to Start a Venture Capital Firm – and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

Mergers and Inquisitions

I noticed the other day that we had articles about how to start a private equity firm and how to start a hedge fund but nothing on venture capital. But just like superhero movies, career advice works best when it’s a trilogy – so we’ll complete this trilogy with how to start a venture capital firm.

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Ashton Gillespie joins TM Capital as a Vice President

TM Capital

Ashton Gillespie has joined TM Capital as a Vice President on the firm’s Financial Sponsor Coverage team in New York. We are excited about Ashton joining TM Capital as we continue to grow our sell-side business with private equity sponsors. The post Ashton Gillespie joins TM Capital as a Vice President appeared first on TM Capital.

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10-11-2023 Newsletter: How to win in Investment Banking? From Analyst to VP

OfficeHours

OfficeHours is an online platform that provides 1-on-1 coaching, training, and advice to help you land a job in competitive finance careers including investment banking, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, and hedge funds. Balancing a professional and personal life can be difficult.

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Periculum Advises Revelant Technologies in Recapitalization and Growth Equity Investment by Inoca Capital Partners, LLC.

Periculum Capital

Periculum Capital Company, LLC (“Periculum”) is pleased to announce it has advised Revelant Technologies (“Revelent” “Company”), a leading Mulesoft implementation and integration partner, in its recapitalization and growth equity investment by Inoca Capital Partners, LLC. appeared first on Periculum Capital.

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Capital Markets vs. Investment Banking: Deals, Careers, Recruiting, Exits, and Offer Decisions

Mergers and Inquisitions

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?