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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. Customer : The federal government is an enormous consumer of products and services. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees.

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

They make money off of equity and stock option gains, as well as investment partnership interests that are taxed at lower capital gains rates. Many companies found that their employees worked just as productively at home—especially for those who had any childcare needs taken care of—and they’re happier not having a commute.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. It’s amazing to me that a company that just a little over 5 years ago was struggling to attract capital at much more than $100 million valuation can now ACQUIRE companies for this amount.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

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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My Top 10 Methods To Make Money Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

If I need to drastically increase the amount of product I sell or customers I attract to make good money, and that requires more of my own time to achieve, or cannot be easily outsourced to others (it often increases your labor just to organize outsourcers, so don’t assume outsourcing is a magic solution), that’s not the method for me.

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Champing At The Bit: Can You Pay Your Workers In Bitcoin?

YoungUpstarts

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. Its appeal is that it is completely decentralized. There is also a bit of cachet associated with the use of bitcoin.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

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. Today that amount is dramatically smaller. Second, they are simple.

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