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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.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. (Hunter Walk just wrote his perspectives here ) Here are some of my learnings from the last year. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. 4) You should love fundraising.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. (Hunter Walk just wrote his perspectives here ) Here are some of my learnings from the last year. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. 4) You should love fundraising.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. 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. How much is enough?

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The Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

However, even though this is a young industry, I’m going to posit that “early-stage” venture capital as it exists today is broken and in need of reform. In addition, there is a performance incentive — the Carried Interest or Carry. The carry is typically around 20% of any gains on the fund.

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