Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

After the banking fiasco surfaced a year or so ago, resulting in the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, investment banks seem to most of us more like a place to avoid, rather than a place to entrust with the keys to our investment livelihood.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Customers and users burned by VC backed startup after VC backed startup may start looking around for independent alternatives who aren’t looking to sell them out, or sell out themselves, only to have the products they love and rely on killed by acquiring companies. No governing body, no membership fees, no expensive audits required.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. Other aspects of organizational governance. They need to ensure that the shares are distributed productively. Common stock. The selection of Senior Officers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

If I need to drastically increase the amount of product I sell or customers I attract to make good money, and that requires more of my own time to achieve, or cannot be easily outsourced to others (it often increases your labor just to organize outsourcers, so don’t assume outsourcing is a magic solution), that’s not the method for me.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. Its appeal is that it is completely decentralized.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

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. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands.

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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. trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 11, 2010

5) The attempt to link tax rates with wealth creation is hugely complicated because we are now talking about investment returns versus economic productivity. The problem with highly progressive tax systems is that they dis-incentivize productive people from being productive. Let’s tackle an easy one, CEO compensation.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In this article he opines: "I would have loved to have seen the stimulus package include a government-funded venture capital bank to help finance all the start-ups that are clearly not starting up today — in the clean-energy space they’re dying like flies — because of a lack of liquidity from traditional lending sources.".

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In case you don’t know, “the “9-9-9 plan” would replace all current taxes (including the payroll tax , capital gains tax , and the estate tax ) with 9% business transaction tax; 9% personal income tax rate, and a 9% federal sales tax.” The video was no accident.

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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. They blame everything in their life on somebody else. Good luck,” Kalanick told his driver. I have my doubts.

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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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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Khanna’s conception, the way to achieve “national excellence” is to re-envision freedom not just as “freedom from excessive government regulations and interference,” but rather the “freedom to live up to one’s potential.”

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