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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. While the government says they love startups, the first thing they did this year is raise the capital gains tax. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Lessons Learned.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. marketplace is born.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital.

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My Top 10 Methods To Make Money Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I spent quite a bit of time studying eBay, both as a business model and as a means to capture new customers because of how much buying traffic is there. The better you meet the previous criteria (profit margin, automated, scaleable and passive), the more money you can make when it is time to sell.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. Anyone wanting to be able to do their job or a run a business would find this extremely difficult. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Natural Monopolies.