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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

When you live in NYC, you give up space—since housing is more expensive here per square foot than Wyoming or New Paltz. It was a one-bedroom I rented with 25% of my annual salary. my annual salary. The other major factor in what it costs to live in NYC is the opportunity cost of physical space. How many people can do that now?

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. If you want to eat ramen, pay yourselves a small salary, and reinvest every dollar into growth, we don’t get a penny and that’s okay. “As your business grows we calculate what we call “Founder Earnings” and Earnest is paid a percentage.

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Wyoming offers no state income taxes and good asset protection. The current board (known as the initial board) appoints the board of directors, their roles, and their salaries (which can be zero dollars)—in most cases, these are the same people and roles as they were initially .

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. North Dakota. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Washington.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) (Most Silicon Valley startups have great policies for having your dog at work but not your kids.) Long vacations. We would take at least a 3-week vacation every summer. Since my wife and I liked to hike we’d explore national parks around the U.S. The short answer is no.