Capital Gains Marketing Revenue 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. The longer you wait the higher the price they’ll have to pay and the less time the clock will be ticking on long-term capital gains tax.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 13, 2022
nominal versus market price), this is seen as quick revenue. However, the difference between the market and strike prices at the moment of conversion is likely taxable income. However, the difference between the market and strike prices at the moment of conversion is likely taxable income.
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paulgraham.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
To grow rapidly, you need to make something you can sell to a big market. The catch is that this is a (fairly) efficient market. A startup has to make something it can deliver to a large market, and ideas of that type are so valuable that all the obvious ones are already taken. Google was different from the beginning.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MARCH 25, 2011
Eventually the Internet came along and the Trading Post no longer commanded the secondhand market like it once did (though it did successfully transition online). Whenever I grew tired of a game or a toy I’d sell it via the Trading Post , usually in an effort to make enough money to buy the new toy or game I had in my sights.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
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. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Was this a function of “too much money chasing too few deals” as many pundits claimed?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. Let’s face it. It was 1999.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets.
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