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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

Our response was that we were motivated to focus on seed because 1) this is what we enjoy, care about, and are good at and 2) we’re going to make money on carried interest and this was the best way to get there. From an industry standpoint, I think this have turned out to be only partially true.

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Am I just a greedy VC?

VC Adventure

My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. I have many of the same concerns that Jason outlines in his blog post about the move to change the tax treatment on carried interest. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.

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

David Teten

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Though the megafunds did underperform in absolute terms, they may have outperformed in relative terms.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

As regular readers of this blog know, I''m not a fan of convertible deals to begin with, and it is difficult for me to internalize how value in the company has been created in the two weeks a cap goes from $3 million to $5 million. Generally (but not always) it is investors that came on board a little earlier.

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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. Blog Archive. My Blog List. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. Post a Comment.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. FoFs are typically structured as limited partnerships similar to a VC fund itself, and they typically charge an annual management fee and carried interest on profits – again just like the underlying VC funds in which they invest.

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