View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Defined-benefit (DB) pension funds are the entities which pay a fixed pension amount to retired employees of a particular organization. There remain many corporate pension funds still investing in VC, though a lot of DB pension funds in the private sector are no longer enrolling new employees. The first is a staff constraint.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Defined-benefit (DB) pension funds are the entities which pay a fixed pension amount to retired employees of a particular organization. There remain many corporate pension funds still investing in VC, though a lot of DB pension funds in the private sector are no longer enrolling new employees. The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

We are dependent on them for our lives and our businesses, and we make them billions of dollars, and their employees wealthy. And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. But they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. Not about monopolies or privacy or copyright, but customer service.

United States 70

United States Carried Interest Engineer Viral 70

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

This can be problematic if employees are stretched too thin; it doesn’t matter how much talent they have or how invested they are into your concept. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

Programming 40

Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

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. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.)

Silicon Valley 129

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 129

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. VCs also get capital gains tax rates on “carried interest,” which is what irritates the masses.

Dividend 150

Dividend Silicon Valley Capital Gains Stock 150