Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

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%.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. Natural monopolies are why each country has a single telephone numbering system, a single currency, a single set of train tracks, a single operating systems for things like electricity, water and gas and a national language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

Startups looking for an Angel investor, or a Venture Capital investment usually realize that neither of these sources of funds normally has any connection with a bank. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. Their message and mission is confusing, even to professionals.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Most people don’t expect to be in the same job for the 5-8 years most big innovations take, and most shareholders are operating to much shorter time horizons. This problem is made worse by the short time frames that society works to these days. The good news is that a lot of this is happening already. We just need more of it.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

No governing body, no membership fees, no expensive audits required. Just as some companies can designate themselves as B Corps or some buildings can be designated as LEED, perhaps we should consider a similar designation for Independent businesses. A “Declaration of Independents” if you will.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

In your experience in helping these businesses get up and operational, what type of entity structures are you seeing most of your customers kind of get into or set up at? That’s a little more complicated, because there can be dividends, interest or capital gains, and there’s different tax rates for those.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. This coupled with government intervention of companies “too big to fail” were the blight that led to Japan’s “ lost decade.” We’d have to hit 2.5%

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal. All startups, and all founders, operate far from perfectly. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. To me it favors people like me with capital over those that are purely labor. Founders start companies.

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