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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. Besides my random power fantasies, this post was prompted by a discussion with a very smart marketing and comms exec in the wake of the SVB bank run. But they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. They want DMCA safe harbor? They want Section 230?

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Am I just a greedy VC?

VC Adventure

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.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. there’s a heck of a lot fewer pure-play cleantech VCs today than 5 years ago).

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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

How can you market on a shoestring budget? How will you reach your target market? 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. Kristen Bowie is a marketing leader, forging the path with data-driven decisions.

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

Steve Blank

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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10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York

This is going to be BIG.

It is estimated that eliminating this tax would erase the entire budget deficit, and also cut down on high frequency trading, which can impact volatility in the market. Closing the carried interest tax loophole is something Trump said he was going to do when he campaigned. Fred Wilson agrees.

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. They forget that taxpayers funded the creation of the internet and contributed to pharmaceutical discoveries.