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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%. So why twelve years?

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. Business like these, or systems that behave this way, we call natural monopolies in economics. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Regulations on businesses. Most multinationals are very good at avoiding tax.

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LP Conference

BeyondVC

Anyway, as I had time to think about it, it might be helpful for entrepreneurs to understand how VC funds operate to better understand our motivations and to better align interests. At the end of the day, VCs are in the capital gains business.

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My Big Plans For 2011 (Plus What You Need To Focus On Next Year)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This new course is going to be many things, here are a few teasers… It’s going to focus on the three core business models I’ve used to generate an income online significant enough to live a 2-Hour Work Day and meant that I’ve never had to get a full time job in my life. Very small.