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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. I didn’t negotiate hard on carried interest. And we all know the fables about how people used to start businesses by taking a second mortgage on their home or by running up credit card debt. It’s lost salary for a period of time.

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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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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

One memorable example of this was Xerox’s internal venture capital fund, Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

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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. I have many of the same concerns that Jason outlines in his blog post about the move to change the tax treatment on carried interest. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.

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Why Investor Titles are Important

This is going to be BIG.

With new technology should come new terminology. Partners, in my mind, should have carried interest (upside) in the fund and be able to lead deals and take board seats.

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