Summit Photos and Insights
Women's Private Equity Summit Insights and
Photos from Half Moon Bay, Californina,
March 4 & 5, 2010
Photos From the Women Private Equity Summit, March 4 & 5 , 2010
Greetings,
I thought the Women Private Equity Summit was a tremendous success. I enjoyed meeting wonderful and gracious individuals who were willing to share their views and ideas with their peers, their proteges, and other fellow professionals.
The Women Private Equity Summit was information-packed with on-target insights delivered in breathtaking surroundings. I captured a few shots. Enjoy! Yes, you are welcomed to share this link with others.
Wishing you success in 2010 and beyond. Safe travels.
Remember, if you have a project, I will travel anywhere to help you accomplish your strategic plan.
Sincerely,
Kathy
Coastal Walk at Sunrise
and one Summit recap:
"There is an expertise vacuum in lower market space (<$100 million) left by companies enticed by the larger deals. Yet, lower markets represented 80% of the merger and acquisition activity market in 2009, according to Joyce Johnson Miller, Senior Marketing Director for Relativity Capital.
Individuals and companies with deep sector knowledge, regional relationships, and a plan to return more money to limited partners both in the short and long-term will find opportunities to flourish."
Flowers Along the Shoreline
Red, it is said that
1. In art, red is used to draw our eye.
2. In our flag, red stands for a fierce determination to face down any foe.
3. In rooms, red is used to wake people up.
4 In marketing, red encourages people to take action.
Insights by Professor Carment Reinhart
Co-author of, This Time is Different, Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.
- Reduce debt.
- Growing out of it (this financial crisis) is the best idea.
- Articulate a Plan. An exit strategy builds confidence.
- Follow Sweden's example. Write down bad loans, clean up balance sheets.
Golfing by the Shore
Deborah Thode says, "Golf and life are forever linked. Many contend that golf was a game created to teach life lessons."
"And don't forget, golf is played in a beautiful environment to remind us to 'stop and smell the roses' along the way."
First Impressions
As we began the summit, gracious and thoughtful hospitality was offered by the staff of the Ritz Carlton.
First impressions are important, setting the tone for all future negotiations.
I would like to be part of your team who helps put your best foot forward.
Flying in Formation or Who are Your Wingmen?
Larry Gedney writes in his article, "Why Birds Fly in Vees."
"One cannot help but feel a little wistful as he watches those majestic vees march across the sky amid the honking and quacking and screeching, and the question always comes to mind: Why do they fly in formation?
The advantage to formation flying lies in what pilots call the 'wingtip vortex.'
In a proper vee, each bird is expending the same amount of energy.
The vee is self-stabilizing, and even young birds who have just begun to solo will immediately adjust to any slot in the formation so that it 'feels right.'
Vees need not necessarily be symmetrical, because only the influence of the neighboring half-dozen birds is significant. The important thing is that the front bird should have others on both sides. In other words, one must always have a vee apex, but the legs can be different lengths. The clever bird, if it understood all this, might think, 'Aha! This tells me that, if I flew inside the vee, I would get the benefit of all those dumb clucks around me.' Apparently, though, flights do not tolerate malingerers who attempt to use less power at the expense of more work for the main formation.
The savings in energy brought about by formation flying can be truly significant. The study in Science reports that a flight of 25 birds can achieve a 70 percent range increase over a bird flying solo using the same amount of energy."
Here's to good wingmen. Let me know if I can be one of yours.
Rainbows
DID YOU KNOW:
1. Behind everyone facing a rainbow is the sun.
2. The center of the circular arc is in the direction opposite the sun.
Rainbow Proverbs
Some proverbs associated with rainbows are:
A. "Rainbow at night, shepherd's delight; Rainbow in morning, shepherds take warning."
B. "If there be a rainbow in the eve, it will rain and leave; but if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it will neither lend nor borrow."
"The Wishful Child"
by Kristen Stubblefield, age 13
Our Niece's poem was published.
Grade 7, 2008.
As a dandelion
Pushes through the
Pure, chocolate dirt and sod,
There is a new awakening.
The birds seem to
Chirp merrily
And the sun shines brightly,
As it makes its way to the lush earth.
This dandelion,
This wishful child of mother earth, Is a representation of spring.