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Sideways Startups: Donating Private Stock

Gust

Donations of private stock enable investors, founders and employees to support charitable causes and contribute to the community while receiving simultaneous benefits in the form of substantial cash savings from reduced taxes as well as bypassing capital gains taxes. These assets often have a relatively low cost basis (e.g.

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My Top 10 Methods To Make Money Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Sell products in forums, bulletin boards, classifieds and other community type sites The card game Magic: The Gathering was a big part of my life from the end of highschool to the beginning of university. Like eBay you can make money selling secondhand items in community sites if you can find a way to source product at cost or below.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. Ted: Great service to the startup community! Specifically it would benefit from a clause nullifying these drag-along rights in case of a proposed sale to a preferred-affiliated entity. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. I echo Peter's request.

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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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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

For this reason, I’ve not included a Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement or a Voting Agreement, both of which are typical in a Series A financing. Additionally, I plan to “open source” the documents so that they can be continually improved by suggestions from the community. I am not intending to standardize Series A terms.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

When Clayton decided to start a Fund after his incredible sale of Deep Eddy Vodka, we knew we had to be investors. When you are just beginning as an angel investor, go out there and start selflessly serving the community. Become a mentor at Capital Factory , TechStars , SKU , and other places that are known for helping entrepreneurs.