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

Agile VC

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others?

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Battery Ventures Announces New $750 Million Fund

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This is one of the largest funds raised in the first quarter of 2010 as VC funds struggle to raise money due to poor performance and low liquidity. A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million.