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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

If you join a fund, you’ll invest your financial capital, but far more importantly, your reputational capital. Senior partners take home a lower 15 percent of the carried interest….Summarizing These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Second, credibility (fund reputation) is a huge confound. Ironically, it may be true that it is better for the VCs themselves to raise smaller funds because the more volatile a fund the more valuable the carried interest (which has, after all, the exact same payout structure as a call option).

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Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

Startup Company Lawyer

The budget proposal is wide ranging, and includes, for example, proposed changes with respect to the taxation of “carried interests&# in partnerships, as well as sweeping reform of the international tax area. This week, the Obama Administration released the first comprehensive summary of its budget proposal.

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The Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

In addition, there is a performance incentive — the Carried Interest or Carry. The carry is typically around 20% of any gains on the fund. Now that’s nothing to snicker over, especially considering that well-reputed and established firms could often have multiple overlapping funds.

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