Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

None normally work for or 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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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 13, 2009

The budget proposal would modify IRC Section 1202 to provide for a complete exemption from capital gains tax for qualified small business stock issued after February 17, 2009 and held for five years, and the amount excluded would not be added back for alternative minimum tax purposes. Current Law.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2017

IDCs are any costs associated with oil and gas production that cannot be resold (or recovered) later. 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.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. at a startup that has already raised $5 million the chances of you making your retirement money on that company is EXTREMELY small.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 13, 2016

A month or so ago I wrote about that Mismeasurement may be at the heart of the productivity paradox. The major differences between the consumption and income measures come from realised capital gains, dramatic increases in public and private benefits (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

I’ve been here three times in the past year – the first time was to hear Bilski at the Supreme Court in November and then I was back in March to talk about and promote the Startup Visa. Create a cabinet position (Secretary Newco) that is focused on pushing through initiatives that help startups and unleash millions of entrepreneurs.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

His definition of empowering innovation: [Empowering innovations] transform complicated and costly products available to a few into simpler, cheaper products available to the many. and of efficiency innovation: [Efficiency innovations] reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

It’s a tough tough job to be running a startup and you need to have people who are willing to listen, provide useful input, and sometimes a different point of view. When an investor buys equity in a priced round, the capital gains clock on that stock starts as of the date of investment. There are a lot of moving parts.

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

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Turn the question on its head: How could it make sense to lend money to a brand new, seed-stage company with no revenue, no products, and no collateral? (You Convertible debt? Convertible equity? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Founders of startup companies often wait to incorporate a company until they are confident that their concept is viable or fundable. Trying to clean up pre-incorporation promises to grant equity in a startup company is a painful task, especially if founders part ways before there are formal documents in place to deal with the situation.

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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.”. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. They shouldn’t even be looking for a fully built product.

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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. Maybe this is even too heavy handed.

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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. Get creative with credit cards.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

These R&D investments matter because they enhance productivity, which enables the formation of new (and often higher-wage) jobs. Productivity enhancements can also help reduce income inequality. For every 1% increase in productivity, wages for low-skilled workers rise at roughly double the rate of those for high-skilled workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

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. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. It literally drove FOMO.

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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. All that being said, I will not make my decision to fund a startup based on whether or not it uses.Net.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Posted at 02:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBack (0) | Reblog (1) 02/24/2010 About the Series Seed Documents A decade ago, a company would need to raise a couple of million of dollars to create a new product and effectively bring it to market. In conclusion, I feel very fortunate to be a part of the startup company ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

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. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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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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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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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. She did an amazing job making the most of what she could start with, creating a safe and largely respectful product for women compared to competitors. I have my doubts.

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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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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

” I’ve always viewed government as the necessary platform for creating and maintaining the conditions for productive markets and entrepreneurship. In a third, he suggests offering a capital gains tax credit to institutions that invest in nontraditional, Black- and Brown-run firms or those led by women.

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