Capital Beat by Dave Beal

Sven A. Wehrwein

Show Me Where It Hurts

The medical device industry is experiencing many aches and pains, but I'm convinced that demand is going to soar.

June 2010

Private Equity (and its Public Side)

Private-equity firms look for predictable cash flow in their investments. Deal flow will pick up when company cash flows are more predictable.

April 2010

Capital Migration

Persistence might eventually bear fruit in Minnesota for foreign stock exchanges.

February 2010

Minnesota's IPO Blackout Ends

A modest return to the culture that led to small public offerings would be a refreshing development.

January 2010

Help from the Heavens?

A proposed tax credit for angel investors will likely be weighed against alternatives such as direct state aid to start-up companies.

December 2009

Riding the Waves

How can we manage the unpredictable?

November 2009

Managing Through the Meltdown

Longtime General Mills CFO Jim Lawrence has moved to Unilever, about four times the size of General Mills. 

September 2009

Waiting for the Payday

CVRx, Minnesota's top venture capital beneficiary ever, has shouldered the venture capital downturn with remarkable prospects.

August 2009

The New M&A?

Over the past year or so, 363 sales have become one of the most active drivers of the mergers and acquisitions business.

July 2009

Time to Refocus

Forget the stock market: the bond market and, more broadly, the debt market have become the center of the action.

June 2009

Dealing for Dollars

The irony is hard to miss. Spineology was struggling in 2006 while the economy was rolling along. Now, it’s prospering in a recession.

May 2009

Small Is Beautiful

Just as the securities markets around the world were plunging, Tonka Bay Equity Partners scored another triumph.

April 2009

While America Slept

Could the key to staving off the next economic crisis be financial literacy?

March 2009

Cash Is King

In most years, the markets reward companies for growth. Not now. Today, there is a new mantra: liquidity—cash and cash flow.

February 2009

No-Go IPOs

The IPO market is all but comatose. Will it ever be revived?

January 2009

Out Performing the Pros

How St. Thomas MBA students have turned the Aristotle Fund into a winner.

December 2008

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