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Am I just a greedy VC?

VC Adventure

My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. While I wouldn’t say that I’m a “fan” of government, I’ve always been of the mind that some level of government safety-net is appropriate. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.

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

Hunter Walker

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. 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 they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. They want DMCA safe harbor?

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).

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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below).

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

Steve Blank

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) Was it using government money as a private SBIC firm?

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Last year, I went to an National Venture Capital Association dinner where the President of the organization, Bobby Franklin, spoke about all the great things our lobbying group was doing for VCs—like keeping our carried interest tax loophole. That was before Prop 22 passed.