Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Officially, the investment banks mission is to raise money for companies by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets, and providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. Investment banks normally charge fees consisting of three components.

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IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

Gust

JULY 31, 2012

Typically, angel-funded companies that are going sideways have 1-10 employees and sufficient revenues and earnings to be sustainable, but are not attractive acquisition candidates to larger companies. Current US tax regulations stipulate capital gains tax rates for most angel investment with positive returns.

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Exit Strategy Angel Investor Capital Gains Startup 135

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 3, 2011

While the number of exits and the capital gained through them were up, these figures still don't match 2007 levels. Exit activity is staging a comeback but capital netted lagged as large M&As and IPOs were still uncommon in 2010," said Jessica Canning, director of global research for Dow Jones VentureSource.

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IPO .Net Capital Gains Acquisition 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

Officially, the investment banks mission is to raise money for companies by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets, and providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. Investment banks normally charge fees consisting of three components.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Last week Amazon.com received regulatory approval for its $500 million acquisition of Quidsi Inc. Actually, Amazon also assumed $45 million in debt, so the total acquisition price was $545 million. But then, they'll have to pay 15% capital gains on that $50 million, so they'll each only walk away with $42.5

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Salary Acquisition Dilution Capital Gains 93

Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings. And when asset values go up, when purchase and sales transactions occur that result in huge capital gains, when people are working and earning good wages, Tax Receipts increase too.

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Accredited Investor Private Equity United States Valuation 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

Officially, the investment banks mission is to raise money for companies by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets, and providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. Investment banks normally charge fees consisting of three components.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But analyzing data will go beyond capital gains and be used to create smarter policies for those in need, as noted in Gartner Group’s “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021.”. McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ. According to research by Beroe, Inc.,

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Common stockholders should care about the preference, because that preference is "ahead" of the commons in any acquisition outcome. Some vesting plans may accelerate vesting for certain events, such as an acquisition. Owning the stock has a potentially significant tax advantage: it starts the timer for long-term capital gains.

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Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). Seed rounds were getting bigger. Series A had become the 4th round of funding. This created a vacuum at the earliest stages of funding.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Pretty much every successful startup will get acquisition offers too. Most product acquisitions have some component of fear. Growth is why VCs want to invest in startups: not just because the returns are high but also because generating returns from capital gains is easier to manage than generating returns from dividends.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Acquisition 111

BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

At the end of the day, VCs are in the capital gains business. In addition, companies should be capital efficient (see an earlier post on capital efficient business models) meaning that no more than $25-30mm should go in, especially if a home run deal acquisition is $200-300mm (not $1b).

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LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60