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Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO

Feld Thoughts

Later, if they sell, the low tax basis and capital gains tax rates result in a lower tax liability than if they didn’t file the 83(b) election. In this manner, you can see both the current equity distribution of the company, as well as historically what the equity holdings looked like.

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Encouraging the right type of innovation

The Equity Kicker

His definition of empowering innovation: [Empowering innovations] transform complicated and costly products available to a few into simpler, cheaper products available to the many. and of efficiency innovation: [Efficiency innovations] reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services.

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Drafting a Declaration of Independents

Bryce Dot VC

Independent businesses, who’ve raised outside capital, put in place a distribution plan for their investors to share profits and relieve pressure to go public or sell out. Independent businesses respect their users by not selling their data to 3rd parties or opting them into spammy offers. Maybe this is even too heavy handed.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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How Startup Valuations are Driving Company Equity

ReadWriteStart

Dividends paid and capital gains realized on a per-share basis provide ordinary shareholders with a way to participate in the profits stream of the company. It is possible to participate in a company’s capital gains (losses) without purchasing its common stock if the owner of a warrant holds it for a lengthy period of time.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

But I think we can all agree we’ve got a bit of a problem with friends, followers, fans, likes and especially free products. We could take the product home and test it in the lab. Free Market Capitalism. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen.

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Perfecting a More Digital Union: Ro Khanna’s Dignity In A Digital Age

Reid Hoffman

In his important new book, Dignity In A Digital Age , he explores how the tech industry can work harder to ensure the benefits it produces are equitably distributed, while also more effectively minimizing disinformation, encroachments on privacy, and other negative outputs. Indeed, if we want the U.S.