Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. 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. investment bank entrepreneur startup funding IPO' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. 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. Many investment banks even call themselves “boutiques.”

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ESG Investing: Aligning Your Values with Your Portfolio Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has emerged as a significant trend in the investment landscape, appealing to clients who wish to align their portfolios with their personal values.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

For better of for worse most of the actions fall to government (some of these I wrote about yesterday): Use the tax code to incentivise investment in long term risky companies (i.e. tax breaks for individuals who invest in qualifying startups and hold those investments for a minimum time (like the EIS scheme in the UK).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

None really provide funds for early-stage startups. None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2019

With its generous tax benefits and DLT regulatory framework, Malta is a great destination for startups and entrepreneurs. Artur Hochberg of Malta takes a look at why the country is a good choice for startups. Traditional startup hubs like Berlin, London, and Paris have long dominated the European business landscape.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. Other aspects of organizational governance. Why do startups issue company equity? Common stock.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

Every business must pay a certain percentage of gross income as tax to the state government. These costs include capital gains, investment returns, and retirement proceeds. The post 7 Tax Planning Strategies for Small Businesses appeared first on The Startup Magazine. So, the question is how to plan for taxes.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Christensen suggests that capital gains tax should decline with the length of time an asset is held (we used to have that in the UK), and tax incentives to invest in longer term riskier assets are also a good idea (like the EIS scheme here in the UK). The good news is that a lot of this is happening already.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the WSJ , CEOs Edward Muller and Larry Zimpleman with a nod to the Kauffman Foundation: In our view, there is no hope of giving consumers renewed confidence in America unless governments at all levels mount a vigorous effort to get rid of rules that discourage entrepreneurs from launching and growing new businesses. via Edward R.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

That’s a little more complicated, because there can be dividends, interest or capital gains, and there’s different tax rates for those. Individual income tax, payroll tax—that’s the same thing as self employment tax—capital gains tax, and then this new one for this year, or not this year, but last year, 2013.

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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. A “Declaration of Independents” if you will.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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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 21, 2021

We wanted to stay in that physical space, so we wound up merging with a startup who needed at office. There were about ten indie coworkers from the original community and ten employees of this startup. The vibe of the community started to come apart quickly. He said, “You know what would be easier? That rarely works out.

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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. Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

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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.” It is simple and easily explained. Is it good policy?

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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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