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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others? How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? To a lesser extent the desire for greater industry prestige is a factor.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

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. fund or marginally profitable fund doesn’t generate any carry for the GPs that are investing it.

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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. 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.

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Group Finance Director

Transformify

In this role you will work closely with the senior management and executive board, supporting in the businesses planning and strategy.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Senior partners take home a lower 15 percent of the carried interest….Summarizing

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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

Steve Blank

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) 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.