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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.”

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

FoFs have a range of strategies of course, but broadly speaking LPs that invest in FoFs pay them a management fee and carried interest (on top of the fee & carry of underlying VC funds they invest in) for access, diversification, active management or a combination of all three.

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What’s the Difference? Venture Capitalist vs. Angel Investor

The Startup Magazine

Most entrepreneurs are aware that securing investments in their companies could be essential to the short-term growth and long-term success of their venture. It can often be confusing to know which investment type might work best for an entrepreneur and business. The question of venture capitalist versus angel investor often arises.

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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. Read More ».

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What is a Venture Partner?

ithacaVC

Managing Partner/General Partner (I have seen some with Managing Directors too like an investment bank): top dogs that run the shop and own most of the carried interest. Then there are the ambiguous titles of Executive in Residence and Entrepreneur in Residence. These roles typically do not have any carried interest.

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Joining The B Team

VC Adventure

Things such as our “no a s” rule, what we (along with our friends at Techstars) now call #givefirst , putting entrepreneurs first and including all of our employees (and Pledge 1%) in our carried interest all came out of these discussions.