David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Governance. Profitable or backed by large VC fund.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are asking investors to invest into a foreign entity, get legal and tax experts to prepare the memos for them about the tax impact on their fund, governance of foreign corporation etc. Jeff Clavier, Seed stage investor in 90+ consumer internet startups, said: We all have a different approach to non Silicon Valley opportunities.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

QIWI plc is the largest Russian operator of electronic payment systems and was founded by a group of iTech Capital LPs. It is also worth noting that the laws which govern the tech sector, although less developed than the West, will eventually offer the same level of protection and clarity as in the EU.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Other aspects of organizational governance. To provide an accurate prediction, an analyst would need to have a thorough understanding of the company’s operations. It is also essential for an investor to know how much of the company’s stock they would get in exchange for the money they committed at the seed stage.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

A certain General Partner might know a certain type of customer like telecom carriers, but not others like pharmaceutical companies or government agencies. Interestingly, the demand from entrepreneurs has come in all stages and sizes. Incomplete – Finally, VC networks tend to be incomplete.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Existing corporations are focused on operational excellence and incremental improvements through process and efficiency. It is, literally, the toolkit for operating what we call the Big to Bigger machine. It is the ecosystem created by the two that fuels world-changing innovation. Tell us about your products and services.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

From the very beginning Satya and I have stressed the importance of adding an outside investor to your Board as early as seed stage. Whether it’s correlation or causation, our first five investments have all raised additional money after our seeds, so we continue to emphasize boards as part of our model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. Have you had any luck overcoming that skepticism?

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. Read More ».

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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