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. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Unlike brokers who often operate on a commission-based structure, RIAs are typically compensated through fees based on assets under management (AUM), aligning their financial incentives with the long-term success of their clients’ investments.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Portfolio Finance Due Diligence 138

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2020

Statistically, plenty of startups fail — up to 90% a year. That’s why lenders rely on the five C’s as a guide: credit, capacity, capital, collateral, and conditions. Here are several unconventional ways to generate the fiscal momentum necessary to breed startup success: 1. Beyond Bootstrapping and Begging.

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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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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

It is uncommon for startups, especially new ones, to limit their expenses and bootstrap. According to studies by the Villanova University and its online Master of Science in Analytics program , however, there are still several types of tax a startup must pay in order to operate legally.

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Capital Gains Startup Bootstrapping Analytics 100

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. Why do startups issue company equity? You have a financial stake in a startup if you have equity.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

If you are a business owner who operates from physical premises, you have two options: you can either lease a property or get a mortgage. Of course, when you get a business mortgage, you are also making a significant capital gain. Not least, it enables you to gain greater control over your business’s direction.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2017

Short-term capital gains (assets held for sale or exchange for exactly one year or less) are taxed at your ordinary income tax rate, and long-term capital gains are taxed at either 0, 15 or 20 percent. Stock investing tax deductions are limited to losses and payments for education and/or advisory services.

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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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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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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. At the time of writing the New Venture Landscape, I started to capitalize “Pre-Seed”. Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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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.

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Equity Capital Gains Bootstrapping Distribution 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

And the tax changes for 2011 could cause a further end-of-year sell-off: Another factor often not discussed is that the capital gains tax increases coming into effect in 2011 are might just lead to a stock market sell-off in Q410 as investors “lock in” gains at a lower tax rate.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Although these types of notes are relatively easy and cheap to form, many have argued that these types of vehicles are not startup-friendly for a variety of reasons, which we’ll explain below. The point, he says, is to avoid time-consuming valuation negotiations and allowing a variable amount of capital to be raised. Enterprise.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. An examination of several high profile stories this past year about female CEO issues lays bare the other reason: It’s not “founder friendly.” It’s male founder friendly.

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Cofounder Founder Employee Silicon Valley 218

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

They get to have “long-term capital gains” taxes which are much lower than short-term capital gains taxes paid by people who have stock options or income taxes paid to workers. We invest large sums of our after-tax money into our funds and this gets a long-term capital gain tax rate when we make a profit.

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