Hints and tips:
...Dean Meyer has joined venture capital firm Sequoia as a partner focused on early stage investments. He was previously an investor at Vine Ventures....
...Restaurants have used the scalability of online ordering to grow beyond the constraint of table covers using services such as Deliveroo and UberEats....
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...How Thoma Bravo became a private equity powerhouse “Software is eating the world,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen presciently stated in 2011. It’s eating private equity, too....
...Apollo’s efforts are done through a joint venture with Sherrese Clarke Soares, founder of the music buyer HarbourView Equity....
...Raised in the Chicago suburbs, the son of a restaurant owner, he wound up in the Bay Area almost by accident....
...It was a good save on Robinhood’s part, but an even better score for its venture capital investors....
...Another possibility is that dead shops and restaurants are reborn as flats....
...They include a profitable investment in the Beats headphone brand, property holdings in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, and restaurants on Long Island in New York state....
...But it added that call-outs had been growing again as people began to venture out....
...Caesars already has a sports betting joint venture with William Hill in the US, making it a natural fit....
...crisis (FT) SAP chief’s short stint ‘disaster’ for German diversity (BBG) NMC founder blames executives for suspected fraud (FT) Censorship row threatens Russia’s top business newspaper (FT) Many US restaurants...
...The US investment bank was the first foreign bank to ink a deal with Chinese partners to set up such a joint venture back in 2004....
...Now he may be reassessing his Arcadia, the holding company for iconic fashion chains such as Top Shop. Compared with rival Next, Lex notes that Arcadia has much less productivity per square foot....
...At 77, he hints at starting his own venture, but declines to provide details: “I can’t picture myself on a beach, and my golf game sucks. Maybe if I’m out there I can consolidate.”...
...Postmates, the US online food delivery start-up, has raised $300m in venture capital funding, boosting its financial firepower against well-capitalised competitors including Uber and SoftBank-backed DoorDash...
...It also happens to be chaired and part-owned by Luke Johnson, serial entrepreneur, columnist (including for many years at the FT) and once-owner of London’s Ivy restaurant as well as the more mass-market...
...Yelp invested tens of millions of dollars, but it abandoned the venture, laying off 175 employees. Yet Mr Stoppelman refuses to give up....
...as well as its investment in the Alon development site in Las Vegas, its 20 per cent holding in restaurant chain Nobu, its 50 per cent holding in Aspers casino and its investment in Caesars....
...Venture a few steps further and you soon realise that so are the blue and yellow runners that stretch down the long hall....
...to the Coffer Peach business tracker, which looks at sales from 30 restaurant and pub groups....
...His friend Richard Caring, the rag-trade-to-restaurants entrepreneur who owns Scotts and The Ivy, helped him shift sourcing to Asia, driving up profits....
...Valuations are soaring and even prominent venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are publicly questioning whether some start-ups could be overvalued....
...They launched the service in May 2010 and have so far raised some $45m from investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures to fund its development....
...Gladys Balsillie, who died in 1987, began her career as a pilot before opening a popular restaurant and music venue, the Swinging Gate....
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