The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Venture capital and angel investments offer excellent options to startup businesses. An article in Forbes explains that a venture capital firm makes its money through management fees (a percentage of the amount of capital that they have under management) and carried interest (a percentage of the profits of the business).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Early on in any startup is more often than not filled with the unknown. How can you market on a shoestring budget? How will you reach your target market? There’s a ton of questions, but one thing is for certain: it is thrilling to see your little startup start to come into its own. Solid Organizational Processes.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

Besides my random power fantasies, this post was prompted by a discussion with a very smart marketing and comms exec in the wake of the SVB bank run. The conversation evolved to one about how our industry (venture, startups, tech in general) could better message about the positive role we play in the economy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These angels who were all working in their day jobs at various financial institutions, would invite startup electronics companies up to San Francisco to pitch their deals and they would invest an average of $75 -$300K per deal.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. there’s a heck of a lot fewer pure-play cleantech VCs today than 5 years ago).

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ithacaVC

JANUARY 10, 2012

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. Other staff like a controller or CFO; marketing coordinator; investor relations manager; and general counsel. It carries cache. Examples: 1.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Funders Club ( which I''ve written about previously ) recently launched a referral program where angels can receive 10% of the carried interest in a deal they refer that ultimately gets investment from an FC fund.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 22, 2011

It is just stunning to me how little interest there seems to be on the part of a supposedly pro-business Congress and (more recently) Executive Branch on this one simple thing that would unleash innovation and jobs - watering down Sarbanes Oxley. They released a series of spot-on recommendations to help bring back the IPO market.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. Except more involved.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. Except more involved.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

In addition, there is a performance incentive — the Carried Interest or Carry. The carry is typically around 20% of any gains on the fund. Therefore, the motivation is really to look for startups that have an appetite for a larger, chunkier investment. of the size of the fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 29, 2020

It is estimated that eliminating this tax would erase the entire budget deficit, and also cut down on high frequency trading, which can impact volatility in the market. Closing the carried interest tax loophole is something Trump said he was going to do when he campaigned. It’s a dream advantage for a startup.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all.

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