Subject: Private Equity

• Hammer Speaks at Stanford Business School

  Still Can't Touch Dis: Hammer Nothing like celebrating St. Patrick's Day by learning how to make green, eh laddie? If you'd rather own a bar than hit the bars, spend tomorrow night at Stanford Business School soaking up game from none other than Hammer. The occasion is a panel discussion, sponsored by VLAB (a joint venture capital collaboration between MIT and Stanford) called "New Music Models: New Paths to Revenue and New Opportunities."  Following a networking/meet-and-greet, which shou

  March 17, 2009

• Bluegrass Philanthropy

  Warren Hellman takes S.F.'s free roots music festival into its sixth year

  October 4, 2006

• Brugmann's Brain Vomit

  September 7, 2005

• Looking Inside INdTV

  Al Gore and ex-Stanford prof Joel Hyatt say their S.F.-based cable news channel for twentysomethings won't be ideological. But do the Democratic moneymen behind the venture know that?

  July 28, 2004

• Rolling in War Bucks

  How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense

  October 22, 2003

• Son of Super Swindler

  The unsettling link between a group of firms that sell financial planning services to elderly Californians and one of the most notorious con men in U.S. history

  September 10, 2003

• Palookaville

  In S.F.'s political fight game, all the contestants are ignoring a national biotech debate that could put the local economy down for the count

  October 9, 2002

• Generation Excess

  December 6, 2000

• Riff Raff

  June 30, 1999

• Dog Bites

  November 26, 1997

• Wired Frays

  An editor is not hired; three key players flit away; layoffs begin

  November 19, 1997

• The Merger's Tangled Web

  September 10, 1997

• Unspun

  December 4, 1996

• System Crashing

  Buying Wired magazine may align you with the digerati, but buying its stock might sink you into poverty

  July 10, 1996

• Dog Bites

  July 17, 1996

• Fish Story

  Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

  April 10, 1996

• Dish

  May 3, 1995

• SF, NY Fight Over Woodstock Name

  Jim MarshallCountry Joe at Woodstock, 1969 Who owns the name Woodstock? That's the central issue in the brouhaha between the promoters of San Francisco's Free Woodstock 40th Anniversary concert and New York-based Woodstock Ventures. Today at 1 pm at John's Grill, a group of Summer of Love survivors, er, veterans, including former Maritime Hall honcho Boots Houghston, former SF DA Terrence Hallinan, legendary acid-folksters Country Joe McDonald and Barry Melton, Lester Chambers of The Chambers

  May 27, 2009

• Zeppelin Hovering Over San Francisco Wants Your Spit

  Our future looms overhead ...​San Franciscans lucky enough to be enjoying our lunch outside today were interrupted by the less-than-appetizing sight of a gargantuan pair of chromosomes looming over our heads. This zeppelin, which belongs to Airship Ventures, currently features advertising from the Mountain View-based direct-to-consumer personal genetics company, 23andMe, which -- for a mere $99 and a couple ounces of spit -- promises to tell you who you're related to and what genetic diseases

  September 11, 2009