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3 Ways To Make In-House Filing Less Taxing

YoungUpstarts

For instance, if your startup is in the Bay Area but you hire a New York engineer, that engineer may fall under New York’s filing requirements. If your startup is eyeing international expansion early on, your tax compliance and planning needs, both home and abroad, immediately ratchet up. Plan ahead.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

Feld Thoughts

” Many companies have hired ahead of their growth rate because they had the cash to do so. I’ve seen every imaginable type of liquidation preference structure, pay-to-play dynamic, preferred return, ratchet, share/option bonus, option repricing, and carveout. It’s simply not true.