Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2018

In 1937 (yeah, it takes that long to win the Nobel prize), Coase wrote a paper called the Nature of the Firm that revealed the fact that transaction costs are almost always material and do shape economic transactions. Transaction costs, while not always monetary, affect our willingness to buy, sell, and engage in a market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Most of these are easy to avoid if you do your homework up front, but can cost you dearly if you get sucked in. If you feel confused by conflicting time zones, differing currencies, and up-front costs, it’s time to run the other way. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Most of these are easy to avoid if you do your homework up front, but can cost you dearly if you get sucked in. If you feel confused by conflicting time zones, differing currencies, and up-front costs, it’s time to run the other way. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams. Ignore these.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. That will take a long time to settle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Regulated marketplaces are ones that have significant government regulation to promote (ostensibly) the public interest. regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country are developed by Federal government in Washington. state laws that are applicable in one state are imposed by state government.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

BROWN: Cost of managing a data store is negligible. Social networking is governed by SEC 17a4, and SEC hasn’t opined on this. A few companies (Google, Amazon, MSFT) have compute economies of scale that no other entity can touch, including government. I think android / 4g networks will take over tablets.

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Kodorra

JANUARY 4, 2019

Due to its simplicity to set up, the cost is obviously lower than IEO and STO. Governance for ICO can be relatively loose in countries such as Singapore as long as there is a real use of the ICO token or coin in the blockchain system that the company envisages. But countries such as the U.S STO (Security Token Offering).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Having both will add cost, but they should also add significant peace of mind to your work throughout this process. This option takes greatest advantage of your knowledge of your state and its laws, the helpful local people you know, and the ability to physically visit government offices if needed. So, why use a service? .

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

HBSANY members are required to be accredited investors (per SEC regulations) and are expected to agree to the terms of the HBSANY Membership Agreement. Remedy Systems ( www.remedysystems.com ) designs and builds practical mobile product platforms that lower the costs and improve the quality of healthcare.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

Some companies look at this as a “cost of doing business,” but it can easily cost you your reputation and your business. Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 Generally the cost for each such transaction was nominal, i.e. less than $200. In a recent update by Thomson-Reuters , the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth’s role there was to perform audits; prepare tax returns for Corporations, S-Corps, LLC’s, Partnerships; and bankruptcy compilation work for SEC reporting and litigation. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

(ask only simple easy questions – that should be clear in the first 5 sec.). Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play. Test with low cost? Christoph Lütke Schelhowe : Data for everyone? Self-learning videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. However, such flexibility is countered by increased compliance costs due to the application of complex partnership tax rules that also apply to LLCs. Governance/Structure.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

The businesses would get access to tens of millions more potential investors, and could reach out to them at little or no cost through online outlets like Facebook. Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

A series of rules, regulations and other compliance issues aimed at large-cap, already-public companies has increased the time and costs required for emerging companies to take this critical first step," the report stated. The survey learned that the average cost that companies sustain just to go public was $2.5

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  Many VC-backed companies don’t do audits until a certain point of maturity to avoid costs and distractions, but certainly a company reporting more than $10 million in revenue should have formal audits.   Further, the audit committee should meet with auditors on an annual basis without management in the room.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. Moreover, once high-flying startups began to struggle on the fundraising trail.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

As the proposal read, "We recommend that companies with total annual gross revenue of less than $1 billion at IPO registration and that are not recognized by the SEC as 'well-known seasoned issuers' be given up to five years from the date of their IPOs to scale up to compliance.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. It would cost a tremendous amount of money to run such a program. With the 7% banker fee that is a 35% AVERAGE cost of capital. Billions of dollars. Wouldn’t that be great?

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 22, 2009

In their view, the dramatic proliferation of competing markets and the extraordinary rise in high velocity trading have had only beneficial results: greater liquidity, narrowed spreads and lower transaction costs for all investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. More Stable Currency for Some Citizens of the World Some people don’t trust their governments with a national currency.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all.

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