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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Offshoring is going in reverse, particularly for strategically important industries like semiconductors or communications equipment. Tighter money and higher interest rates will likely mean less asset inflation in everything from tech stocks to houses. The post Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction.

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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Steve Blank

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs.

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Difference Between ICO, IEO and STO

Kodorra

Governance for ICO can be relatively loose in countries such as Singapore as long as there is a real use of the ICO token or coin in the blockchain system that the company envisages. Simply put, it’s a process of tokenizing securities (company stocks, bonds or assets like real estate). Some regulators, such as U.S

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. That employee was given “stock options,” which pay the exact same rate of taxes as income.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. In exchange for equity, we discount the project cost, which is already low because we offshore most of our development, by 10-15%. There’s a huge caveat to the above comments. Rock Health).