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

Agile VC

Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team). Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

VCs in seed clothing: Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, and Naval Ravikant interviewed - Venture Hacks , May 5, 2010 I recently got on the phone for a cross-continent conference call with Chris Dixon from Founder Collective , Mark Suster from GRP Partners , and our own Naval Ravikant. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds. What should I do?’.

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Explaining carried interest

The Equity Kicker

Carried interest’ is the name given to the profit share schemes that investors in venture capital funds, typically called ‘LPs’, use to incentivise the partners at at the funds in which they invest. Hurdle rates stipulate that the Manager delivers a minimum return before any carry gets paid out.

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Battery Ventures Announces New $750 Million Fund

VC Cafe

The New York Times says the new fund is a signal that Silicon Valley is being revived, but according to the Wall Street Journal , it was lower fees and carry that facilitated securing the capital: It helped that Battery proactively offered some investor-friendly terms.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

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). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

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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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How do venture capital firms make money by investing in startups?

Gust

The general partners of a venture capital fund make money… …by raising the bulk of the capital that the fund’s investable capital from “Limited Partners”, usually institutions such as university endowments, insurance companies and pension funds. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.