The Virtual Handshake Blog

Archive for February, 2008

Social Networking Around the World

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

In case you were ever wondering what social networking sites are popular around the world, here’s a graphical representation (click image for larger version):

Free Webcast with Doc Searls & Jay Deragon

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

In the process of working on The Emergence of The Relationship Economy, we had the pleasure to meet and collaborate with Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor and social media visionary Doc Searls. Besides writing a terrific foreword to our book, Doc has also been working with my business partner and coauthor Jay Deragon on several initiatives, including Read More...

Finding Proprietary Deals for Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds, and Venture Capital Funds

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I enjoyed presenting a few weeks ago to the Harvard Business School Club of London on “Best Practices in Deal-Sourcing by Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Hedge Funds“, generously hosted by McKinsey. You can download my slides here. I look forward to learning more about this area at next week’s Capital Roundtable Masterclass Read More...