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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

In today’s business environment where innovation and technology converge and the modern day entrepreneur has more support and incentive than ever to begin their dream startup company, more often than not discussions about state and local business taxes have a similar tone: “The company is losing money; we don’t owe any taxes.”. Wayfair, Inc.

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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. It’s a combination of advancements in technology and changing consumer behaviour. What is the metaverse? Why does a new Internet needs to be rebuilt to achieve this? I will try to unpack this further on a future post.

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

YoungUpstarts

We are now in the midst of the Fourth, characterized by the fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological worlds. each retailing at a cool US$4,000, with the first text message (SMS) only sent in 1992.

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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. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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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 fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old. In addition to helping me understand a number of fundamental things about technology at scale, I got exposed to the complexity of very large organizations, both from the top down and outside in.