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

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

The advent of cloud computing, open source software, platforms with APIs, and numerous other changes have lowered the cost of launching a new enterprise. Additionally, I plan to “open source” the documents so that they can be continually improved by suggestions from the community.

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

K9 Ventures

When an investor buys equity in a priced round, the capital gains clock on that stock starts as of the date of investment. However, in the case of a note, and especially for notes with long maturity dates, the capital gains clock doesn’t start ticking till the the note converts. and it is a positive outcome.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

First off, I think this is a great idea and a great service to both entrepreneurs and investors to effectively "open source" a robust set of very basic preferred financing docs. That would be my suggestion. Posted by: twang | 09/24/2010 at 05:12 PM.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. Buoyed by what you and a few others have contributed, I was inspired to set about getting the entrepreneurial community to join together and create an “open source” resource more widely speaking. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock.

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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. , “Roughly half the funds [surveyed]—particularly smaller funds, healthcare funds and non-California funds—require a unanimous vote of the partners. An additional 27% of funds require consensus (20%) or unanimous vote less one (7%).

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Break up or Nationalise Big Technology Companies: All countries should develop their own search engines and social media that are open source software stacks which their society can run and iterate collaboratively on. Regulations on businesses. It’s Urgent.