View from Seed
OCTOBER 29, 2014
For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).
Hunter Walker
MARCH 30, 2023
And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support. But they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. They want DMCA safe harbor?
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Agile VC
OCTOBER 29, 2014
For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).
VC Adventure
MAY 19, 2010
My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. While I wouldn’t say that I’m a “fan” of government, I’ve always been of the mind that some level of government safety-net is appropriate. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
A huge cleantech boom occurred and battery companies like A123 went public along with biofuels companies like Amyris, Gevo, and others, though in retrospect this was more of a bubble driven by unsustainable government subsidies (A123 is bankrupt and the biofuels companies trade at a fraction of their IPO valuation). So at a fund level (e.g.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MAY 9, 2019
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. As business grows, the ever-growing laundry list of government regulations they are expected to follow grows. Driving sponsorships for your startup is a numbers game.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.
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