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"The beauty of big data is it gives us a lot more insights to be more relevant, more segmented and more targeted. And we can treat more customers in the way they should be treated versus just guessing."

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"The media landscape has been in constant movement over the past few years, which has given us the opportunity to act differently as a challenger. There is the potential to be quicker and smarter, which makes the decision making process faster. Events are happening, and companies must be ready to jump on the train and make something out of it"

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"The smaller companies are trying to look at a space that’s already crowded and struggling to figure out how to optimize the patent filing process and to determine where to invest in innovation. The larger companies have different challenges around monetizing their portfolio and dealing with litigation"

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“In this environment, private equity firms have become more creative in trying to get financing for their portfolio companies”

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“My GP hat is actually a John Deer hat and I’m going to talk to you about our global agriculture fund which we have been raising for the past year, and our investment strategy in agriculture, as well as the two billion that we’ve invested for our general account in the sector. We’ve invested on four continents and building this program over the last four years has been a real adventure particularly for a very large institution that doesn’t usually do things in a nimble private equity way.”

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Private equity, pension plans and public companies are in talks to buy internet giant Yahoo.

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Amid ongoing concerns around the validity of their pre-IPO accounting practices, Groupon’s COO leaves the firms after only 5 months.

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Trends in private equity investment in the media and telecom industries was the topic of a July 28, 2011 Argyle Conversation between Jeffrey Stevenson, managing partner of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, and David Snow, founder and CEO of Privcap and editor-at-large of PEI Media.

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‘We are very focused on niche investing. We focus everything we do on niches and bringing in talented people. We like to feel like professional athletes who compete in high school games.’

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