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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Terman encouraged students and professors alike to commercialize technology originally developed in the university research labs, spawning such important institutions as Varian Associates and Hewlett Packard. Technology transfer office. Silicon Valley didn’t create venture capital, and venture capital didn’t create Silicon Valley.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. And last quarter we now know grew at just 1.6%. Such is the case with advanced batteries.

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Assembling a Tulip: Can you engineer thriving Web3 communities of humans (DAOs) using code?

This is going to be BIG.

A few years ago, I was a member of a co-working space. The community norms and values of the space had been carefully nurtured by the three people that started it. There were about ten indie coworkers from the original community and ten employees of this startup. The vibe of the community started to come apart quickly.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Even after Fowler’s article came to the forefront and investors Freada and Mitch Kapor broke ranks with their silent co-investors in their now-famous open letter , things didn’t get better. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that. They got worse.

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