+25 Best Practices - Outlook & Deal Management 6 11mo
+25 Search Fund Interview 7 11mo
+25 Spoiled Banana Interview 4 11mo
+25 Collateral in an LBO for software companies? 15 10mo
+25 Where / How can I learn more about funds? 3 10mo
+25 Partners Group London 19 10mo
+25 MBA Associate/military vet looking for PE advice 1 9mo
+25 RE: Most useful languages to learn (for IB/PE)? 11 9mo
+25 Laptops for Investors/Investment Professionals/Bankers? (2023) 16 2mo
+25 Mid Level Comp - Secondaries or Co-invest 26 9mo
+25 Interviewing / succeeding as CXO at PE-backed portco? 10 8mo
+25 AEA Investors - London 8 8mo
+25 Lateral Moves within Private Equity 7 8mo
+25 Title downgrade to break into PE worth it? 9 8mo
+25 PE Secondariees 7 7mo
+25 Leaving Banking: Now or Never? 8 7mo
+25 how do you estimate market size for vertical software 8 6mo
+25 How does “range” make you a better investor? 6 6mo
+25 MBB -> PE vs IB -> PE 21 5mo
+25 Whose status is higher in society - MF PE Partner or an A-list celebrity (Kanye/Drake/Beyonce)?  20 5mo
+25 Should I list m7 MBA admission offer on resume for PE recruiting 7 4mo
+25 Warburg Pincus Capital Solutions 21 1mo
+25 Principal level recruiting 16 2mo
+25 Am I being played here? Ridiculously long case study 24 3w
+25 Firms with the best near-term fundraising track record / trajectory 10 2mo
+25 What is the business model of recruiters (e.g., CPI, Henkel)? What's stopping me from establishing my own shop? 9 2mo
+25 Placement agent? 5 2mo
+25 Feasability of Switching into PE post MBA 4 1mo
+25 Me bitching... A Rant. 3 4d
+25 Leaving PE Firm 8 1d
+24 The Private Equity Institute 18 4y
+24 Best West Coast PE Shops? 35 4y
+24 Cerberus culture/work environment (NYC) 37 2y
+24 LBO book 11 4y
+24 Retail Bank Valuation 16 7y
+24 P/E Private Equity & Minorities - Non-target and did a summer at BB 15 4y
+24 Firms like Intel Capital? 21 1y
+24 Back Office Jobs in PE 25 1y
+24 Killer Website Idea 23 12y
+24 Top tier consulting to Private Equity post-MBA 6 7y
+24 Buying distressed: microcap? Small businesses? 19 12y
+24 Just Raised an Angel round.... 19 12y
+24 BX Portfolio Operations Group 13 4y
+24 SWF - Middle East 10 4y
+24 Private Equity firms with ops groups 19 5y
+24 Blackstone - Entrance level analyst 12 8y
+24 Blackrock Private Equity Partners 27 4y
+24 Middle Market PE Question - Grateful For Advice 4 11y
+24 Platinum Equity Partners 33 7y
+24 Will Firm Pay Me? 20 10y
+24 What should I do.... achieve the goals I set? 9 4y
+24 Credit Analyst to PE 12 9y
+24 Possible to Jump to PE as an experienced CPA 18 10y
+24 LBO deal: why use high yield debt? how are debt tranche splits arrived at? 7 10y
+24 KKR/Platinum Equity/Ares/Bain Capital 12 4y
+24 The Tax Dance: To Pass Through or Not to Pass Through Income? 1 9y
+24 Model won't balance. 6 9y
+24 Twitter's Bar Mitzvah! Is Social Media coming of age? 0 9y
+24 Is the work in PE much more difficult than the work in IBD? 12 9y
+24 Q: Why do you want to be an investor? A:? 11 8mo
+24 KKR - Latest buyout fund? 28 6y
+24 No "on the job" modeling experience 24 8y
+24 What's in a name? Of Umlauts, The Alphabet and World Peace! 2 8y
+24 Consultant friendly MM PE firms 14 3y
+24 Google APM vs McKinsey as first job to start company 8 8y
+24 Question: Micro Private Equity 8 4y
+24 Carried interest / carry interest for a $100 - $200mn fund with a 2-3 person team? 9 5y
+24 Looking for American vs European waterfall example 5 4y
+24 LBO model: reflecting an OID correctly 4 7y
+24 Need an MBA to climb the ladder? 7 7y
+24 Meeting PE Partner at His Office 11 7y
+24 Industry Specific PE Comp - PE Experts Help Me Out! 3 7y
+24 'How PE funds can overstate LP returns by up to 50 pct' 9 7y
+24 Private Equity the long way 5 4y
+24 Examples of LBO-Restructure-IPO 3 6y
+24 Amalgamated Mines. PE or List? 6 7y
+24 How to do entry analysis on private companies? 6 4y
+24 Best Minor to add to Finance Major for PE? 9 6y
+24 WSO Basic LBO Model #1 5 6y
+24 Big Four to PE - MBA or not? 5 4y
+24 How is TA Associates and CVC - London 16 11mo
+24 Thoughts on Caisse de Depot - Private Equity as an undergrad analyst 6 2y
+24 Moving from non-MBB consulting to PE 8 2y
+24 When do people expect Private Equity on cycle recruiting to begin this year? 9 6y
+24 From boutique TMT strategy consulting to PE 1 6y
+24 PE Business Development Role 6 1y
+24 1.5 Hour LBO Test 10 4y
+24 Triangle Capital Sells its Portfolio 6 5y
+24 What happens to cash and debt when a PE firm takes over a public company? 5 6y
+24 Private Equity vs Private Credit 5 5y
+24 How do you exit a company after recapitalization? 2 5y
+24 Whether to Leave a Primarily Sourcing Role at a Middle Market Private Equity Firm 2 4y
+24 Total Proceeds Based on Ending Cash Using Price / Rev. 1 5y
+24 Early exit to small PE firm 4 5y
+24 Maranon Capital Analyst Program? 10 3y
+24 Different headhunters reaching out to different people at same firm? 6 4y
+24 Bored of PE, what next? 4 5y
+24 Why Direct when you can invest in Secondaries? 5 5y
+24 Associate Bonus Clawback 8 5y
+24 Best-looking PE Fund Quarterly Report 6 3y

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