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Sloppy Reporting from The New York Times on Carried Interest Debate

Seeing Both Sides

But I cheated and peeked at my email late Saturday afternoon and discovered an email from a friend saying, "I'm surprised to see you take such a public stance on the capital gains tax rates," with a link to a New York Times article on the topic. I swore I would go offline for much of Memorial Day Weekend.

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Barney Frank says: Don't Mess with VCs or Angels

Seeing Both Sides

On Financial Reform, Barney Frank was very direct when I pressed him on the myriad restrictions that are being discussed in the Senate bill around angel investing and the discussions about taxing carried interest. Here's what he said: "We will exempt venture capital from the carried interest tax.". "We

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

Steve Blank

But the biggest innovation was the “carried interest” (called the “carry”.) Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

Send them an email or file a ticket? Whenever I have a question I just email the VP of the product and they respond really quickly.” When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support. But try to call Google.

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

Hippoland

For all of these reasons, this is why microfund managers who are able to raise more money on subsequent funds end up doing so, because for the same amount of work and risk, you’d much rather be paid more in salary and in carried interest later. 4) You should love fundraising.

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

Hippoland

For all of these reasons, this is why microfund managers who are able to raise more money on subsequent funds end up doing so, because for the same amount of work and risk, you’d much rather be paid more in salary and in carried interest later. 4) You should love fundraising.

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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. Email This BlogThis! As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. Stay tuned. Steve Bennet.