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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Our product is delivered electronically; sales tax doesn’t apply to us.”. “We 298 (1992), which requires “substantial nexus” in the form of property or people to impose sales tax on out-of-state sellers. 298 (1992) which may allow states to constitutionally tax out-of-state sellers with no physical presence within a state.

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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Surely, with these risks, investing in such countries is not as easy as purchasing Natural Frontier Market products from mercato.com as that’s a very different thing. Many frontier markets are known for efficiency innovations.

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A Very Short peak into the Metaverse

VC Cafe

The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. Several companies have announced or launched Metaverse products already including Meta’s Horizon Worlds , Microsoft’s Mesh , Nvidia’s Omniverse , etc. What is the metaverse?

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. each retailing at a cool US$4,000, with the first text message (SMS) only sent in 1992.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Not only was he exceptionally gifted technically, he gained everyone’s respect for his integrity and strong convictions about the company’s product direction and overall strategy. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball. I was one of the beta testers for their first product.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow. The innovation engine that powered the U.S. More and more people, like Henry R.

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6 Keys To Startup Wins Without Disruptive Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Or find an entirely different application for an existing product.