View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The third reason is less in the hands of these institutional investors, and that’s governance. Subscribe here for more.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds).

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. You’re a big enough advertiser or business partner to have an account manager. 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. They want Section 230?

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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.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x So at a fund level (e.g.

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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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.

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