Finance Roundtable

There are some good posts going around today on the topic of using convertible debt in seed stage venture financings including one by my former colleague Seth Levin over at Foundry that is worth a look.

Rather than beat around the bush, let me just say that as someone who ...

Incredimail reported its 4th quarter earnings today and the stock got killed thanks largely to the revelation that Google had recently approached it and indicated that they were considering significant changes to their policies on how their "traffic partners" are allowed to reset their users homepage and ...

So Congress has apparently cut a final deal on taxing carried interest.  According the Way and Means Committee the bill will:

" … prevent investment fund managers from paying taxes at capital gains rates on investment management services income received as carried interest in an investment fund.  To the ...

According to Bloomberg, there’s a nasty surprise in the bill that eliminates capital gains treatment for carried interest in investment partnerships.  Not only is the government planning on eliminating carried interest on the investment profits generated by a partnership, but they are planning on eliminating capital gains treatment on

Electric car start-up Tesla Motors set the roadshow terms for it’s IPO today.  It plans to sell 11.1MM shares @ $16/share for gross proceeds of $177.6MM (excluding a potential 1.1MM share shoe), plus another $50M worth of stock to Toyota.  Total shares outstanding after the IPO, including issued options ...

Incredimail reported its 4th quarter earnings today and the stock got killed thanks largely to the revelation that Google had recently approached it and indicated that they were considering significant changes to their policies on how their "traffic partners" are allowed to reset their users homepage and default ...

So Congress has apparently cut a final deal on taxing carried interest.  According the Way and Means Committee the bill will:

" … prevent investment fund managers from paying taxes at capital gains rates on investment management services income received as carried interest in an investment fund.  To the ...

Electric car start-up Tesla Motors set the roadshow terms for it’s IPO today.  It plans to sell 11.1MM shares @ $16/share for gross proceeds of $177.6MM (excluding a potential 1.1MM share shoe), plus another $50M worth of stock to Toyota.  Total shares outstanding after the IPO, including issued options ...

According to Bloomberg, there’s a nasty surprise in the bill that eliminates capital gains treatment for carried interest in investment partnerships.  Not only is the government planning on eliminating carried interest on the investment profits generated by a partnership, but they are planning on eliminating capital gains treatment on

“the ...

Electric car start-up Tesla Motors set the roadshow terms for it’s IPO today.  It plans to sell 11.1MM shares @ $16/share for gross proceeds of $177.6MM (excluding a potential 1.1MM share shoe), plus another $50M worth of stock to Toyota.  Total shares outstanding after the IPO, including issued options ...