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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. Stay tuned.

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While VCs get management fees to pay the bills, it is the carried interest portion or % of profits that VCs receive that really drives our thinking and aligns our economics with performance. We make money when our LPs make money which means that the companies we fund and entrepreneurs that we back need to be successful.

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