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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. This causes the cost of capital for Flexible VC, often calculated through IRR (similar to an interest rate), can be higher than that of venture debt or traditional RBI. Flexible VC offers you this. Flexible VC can allow Impact VCs to thread this needle.”.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

This explains more: [link] Whether something has a cost doesn't change how our systems work. in Ireland—despite being behind a paywall. Googlebot) accesses the content with a valid IP, however, it’s presented with the content in the HTML and has correct paywall structured data. The travel section on Independent.ie

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Ensure money is transferred to low cost tax markets as a high cost tax market expense. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Co-Working Space.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The entire test was able to complete within two hours with a total cost of a few hundred dollars, and these EC2 instances were only in existence for the duration of the test. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. xl instances cost $0.68

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