Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income. A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I myself have two investors, Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital and Chris Shonk, an angel investor in Localeur but founding partner of ATX Seed Ventures, who are VCs. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? or were forced to raise too much venture capital?—?something

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. During a 25-year span of time until 2005, their final report noted, nearly all net job growth in the U.S. That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy."

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