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The largest U.S. private-equity funds and venture capital firms have relied on a five-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to protect the carried interest tax break that helped drive presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 effective tax rate below 14 percent.
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A few months after struggling to raise a new fund in 2005, Accel Partners bet $12.2 million on a website run by a college dropout. Seven years later, that wager is poised to be the most profitable ever for a venture firm.
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Zynga Inc. and Facebook Inc. led a 51 percent surge in the private market valuations of top Web companies in the first quarter, according to Nyppex LLC.
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Divya Gugnani , co-founder of fashion website Send The Trend, gathered employees in a New York conference room smelling faintly of garlic to talk about the company’s latest hit: bondage earrings.
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Venture-capital funding in the third quarter fell to its lowest level in more than a year as investors made fewer bets on alternative energy.
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The U.S. House voted yesterday to approve legislation that extends unemployment insurance, restores some tax breaks and raises taxes on managers of buyout funds and other investment partnerships.
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Lobbyists for startup investors say they are nearing a deal with Senate staff and state regulators to remove curbs on angel investing from the Senate’s financial reform bill.
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U.S. venture capital fundraising dropped to the lowest in eight years in the third quarter as a slowing economic recovery and debt crisis in Europe led to fewer initial public offerings.
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Democratic Party committees entered April with $22 million more to help their congressional candidates than Republicans, a reversal of four years ago.
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Blackstone Group LP and other firms protesting a plan by Congress to increase taxes on executives of investment partnerships are focusing on what they say is an exemption for family farmers.
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