Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Profit from ISOs have the potential to be taxed as long-term capital gain, which is a considerably lower rate than NQSOs, which are generally taxed as ordinary income. Any proceeds from an exercise or sale become subject to taxation at the lower, long-term capital gains rate rather than ordinary income rates.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff. Written By: Chip Gaines, Narrated By: Chip/Joanna Gaines. Before becoming a HGTV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband and father, Chip Gaines was a serial entrepreneur. She studies marketing at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

That’s an invaluable exercise, which is probably even *more* important in the early stages of the company, while you’re still trying to figure out the technology, the product, the market, the pricing, the team. In the case of equity holders, they would have been in long-term capital gains and pay 15% on the gains.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2017

Thanks to the considerable tax write-offs available for intangible drilling costs (IDCs) and tangible drilling costs (TDCs), oil and gas investing can drastically lower your tax bill — even when compared to investing in the more traditional stock or real estate markets. How’s that? First, let’s tackle the terminology.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. If Java happens to be the right technology platform to use, then so be it.

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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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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

This has mirrored a solid rise in the Public Stock Market, which despite its extremely Poor Long-Term Performance , is up 5.5% And as good as the news has been in the Housing and Stock markets, it pales in comparison to this Golden Age of technology and venture investing that we are currently experiencing.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. If Java happens to be the right technology platform to use, then so be it.

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VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2010

No matter how you feel about Congress’ efforts to change the tax classification of VC profits from capital gains to ordinary income it’s worth a read (and keeping an open mind). My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. I, for one, surely don’t think so.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. Capitalism evolves and new industries are born by doing one simple thing. Internet 1.0.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Stay Tuned.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Seed rounds were getting bigger. By definition, yes.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

When research does produce new technologies, entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists who back them have been too cautious to make big bets — especially after the costly failures of the dot-com bust. I see short-term thinking clouding the judgment of financial institutions who have traditionally invested in venture capital.

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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. JD Robinson Jewelers: The original “diamond man” (Tom Shane’s inspiration).

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Which is quite similar to the share market on. You can draw out profits (capital gain) from a property that has grown in value and not pay tax on it. Investors should choose between yield or capital growth when investing. Capital gains tax on selling is 50% lower if you’ve held the property for over 12 months.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Terman encouraged students and professors alike to commercialize technology originally developed in the university research labs, spawning such important institutions as Varian Associates and Hewlett Packard. Technology transfer office. Local/state governments. In many cases, this has led to creating centers of excellence (e.g.,

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

But while some of America’s most powerful lawmakers focus on cutting Big Tech down to size, how many of the major challenges we face, as a country and as part of the greater global community, can we solve without major technological activity and innovation? That’s why Ro Khanna’s perspective is valuable in this moment.

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