Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. Software Margins It costs money to staff support team (duh) and if you’re not showing a high margin structure you risk being penalized from an enterprise value multiple. But they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. They want DMCA safe harbor?

United States 67

United States Carried Interest Engineer Viral 67

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Scaling will increase the cost it takes to do business and it often does it before you’re able to generate additional revenue in the traditional way your company acquires sales. 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.

Programming 40

Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 29, 2020

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.

New York 153

New York Vermont Carried Interest New Jersey 153

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 150