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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. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees. Then open source the results. Necessity will drive efficiency.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. it is acquired) and (b) the employee is terminated without cause (or sometimes resigns for good reason).

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. – Ability to be removed/terminated (cause, without cause) and consequences (effect on vesting, ownership in management company and effect on remaining capital commitment, if any and effect on noncompete). name of the Fund).

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

A world where big companies, small companies, freelancers and employees can all thrive. But in order for us to have a future we want to live in, we need to adjust the guardrails of capitalism so that it doesn’t end up as a new kind of technology feudalism. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes.