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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 29, 2010 The House has passed a bill this past week that would change the taxation of carried interest from capital gains treatment to ordinary income treatment.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. But the biggest innovation was the “carried interest” (called the “carry”.)