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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 29, 2010 The House has passed a bill this past week that would change the taxation of carried interest from capital gains treatment to ordinary income treatment.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.