SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. Worse, Robert Adams and his two partners got 20% of the carried interest in the fund, resulting in payouts of $30 million to the partnership. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

Startup 331

Startup Business Model Lean Russia 331

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

In addition, there is a performance incentive — the Carried Interest or Carry. The carry is typically around 20% of any gains on the fund. The design of K9 Ventures takes these issues into consideration. In return for the operational role the GPs play, their firm receives a Management Fee.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

But the biggest innovation was the “carried interest” (called the “carry”.) Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 130

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 15, 2023

I can have my immigration reform and my carried interest designation? Taxes are a real issue for sure – much of their work is on the company-formation side (how stock options are treated, etc) and that matters to founders and teams. But quite simply we’ve reached the point where priorities deserve to be flipped.

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America United States Stock Options Carried Interest 117