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

Agile VC

What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others? For example carried interest takes years to accrue and is based on the efforts and decisions of both the individual and the firm that happened 5-10 years ago.

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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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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Some big famous old funds share no data whatsoever and are extremely good at eradicating the history of their failures from the internet (leading me to suspect they aren’t doing quite so well as they would like the world to believe). The worst-performing funds fall out of the data altogether. This is a difficult question to study.”.

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? They forget that taxpayers funded the creation of the internet and contributed to pharmaceutical discoveries. Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?