article thumbnail

Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 29, 2010 The House has passed a bill this past week that would change the taxation of carried interest from capital gains treatment to ordinary income treatment.

article thumbnail

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

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. 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.

Startup 327
article thumbnail

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

Steve Blank

But the biggest innovation was the “carried interest” (called the “carry”.) Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee. This is where the partners would make their money.