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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

While my ownership stake in the company has been diluted through these financings (and the merger with uControl), my carried interest (paper value of my equity) has been going up with each increase in valuation. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors.

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LP Conference

BeyondVC

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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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Early on, having a solid organizational infrastructure helps document your journey beyond the acquisition of funding- no matter where it comes from. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

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10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York

This is going to be BIG.

4) We need to push the Federal Government to close the carried-interest tax loophole —but we should do it in such a way where the localities where it gets collected get a share of the income from it. Closing the carried interest tax loophole is something Trump said he was going to do when he campaigned.

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