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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. link] Dave Sandrowitz.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. I didn’t negotiate hard on carried interest. You need the whole package. Few people have it.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model.

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

David Teten

We thought that you’d be interested in our conversation. Now, it is true, if you search you’ll find another Kaplan study that shows increasing fund size among sequential funds by the same manager has a negative correlation with return.”. But I’m sure that has nothing to do with why those firms structure that way.”.

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