BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. We make money when our LPs make money which means that the companies we fund and entrepreneurs that we back need to be successful.

LP 60

LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York Times says the new fund is a signal that Silicon Valley is being revived, but according to the Wall Street Journal , it was lower fees and carry that facilitated securing the capital: It helped that Battery proactively offered some investor-friendly terms.

North America 76

North America Silicon Valley Private Equity 76

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. What Are These Intermediaries? The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. What Are These Intermediaries? The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

During the early days, these are your key contributors and they must be willing to put as much sweat equity into the organization as you are. 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. You Trust Your Team.

Programming 40

Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

3) Sometimes The Promise of Success Turns Into Actual Success – Setting aside very late-stage VC or growth equity type investors, successful VCs always raise new funds on the promise of success rather than actual (realized) returns of the most recent fund. So at a fund level (e.g. typically, which in most cases would to >20% IRR.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Partners, in my mind, should have carried interest (upside) in the fund and be able to lead deals and take board seats. They should be the kinds of key people that limited partners are basing their investment decisions on the fund itself on—not two to three year rotational employees.

Syndicate 102

Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Cap Table 102

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. There’s no reason for private equity managers, hedge fund investors or VCs to pay less taxes as a percentage than teachers.

New York 153

New York Vermont Carried Interest New Jersey 153