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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique.

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

David Teten

Ironically, it may be true that it is better for the VCs themselves to raise smaller funds because the more volatile a fund the more valuable the carried interest (which has, after all, the exact same payout structure as a call option). But I’m sure that has nothing to do with why those firms structure that way.”.

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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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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? How many years did VCs continue to pour money into these companies before there was ever a “what if” board conversation? Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?