Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. Customer : The federal government is an enormous consumer of products and services. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees.

Government 143

Government Technical Review Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 143

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). People also buy for defensive reasons or ego but that’s a different story.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve used owner financing to buy single and multiunit real estate quickly and with great results — and my sellers like avoiding capital gains taxes and recouping more money over time. Vendors will probably tack on small fees for those customized terms, but the price can be worth it. How does owner financing work?

Indiana 165

Indiana Startup Bootstrapping Finance 165

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. It may be the same physical bank that you deal with for your personal account, except in the personal context it is called a retail bank.

IPO 205

IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. It may be the same physical bank that you deal with for your personal account, except in the personal context it is called a retail bank.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

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%. So why twelve years?

France 71

France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

A barbershop serves customers in person, and few will travel far for a haircut. When I first meet founders and ask what their growth rate is, sometimes they tell me "we get about a hundred new customers a month." What matters is not the abolute number of new customers, but the ratio of new customers to existing ones.

Startup 111

Startup Technical Review Software Review Acquisition 111

Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2011

Which is that you only need to pay capital gains taxes which are only one-third the amount of taxes you pay on ordinary income. Would you like a customized plan for growing your company so you can sell it for millions. That's $14 million divided by 15,000 hours (3,000 hours X 5 years (the company launched 5 years ago)).

Cofounder 97

Cofounder Capital Gains Venture Capital Salary 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. It may be the same physical bank that you deal with for your personal account, except in the personal context it is called a retail bank.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Except that the company has done a great job growing its brand, getting LOTS of customers, and keeping them loyal. But then, they'll have to pay 15% capital gains on that $50 million, so they'll each only walk away with $42.5 Nothing too special. But, they sold their business. million (hopefully they'll be OK :) ).

Salary 93

Salary Acquisition Dilution Capital Gains 93

Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Customers and users burned by VC backed startup after VC backed startup may start looking around for independent alternatives who aren’t looking to sell them out, or sell out themselves, only to have the products they love and rely on killed by acquiring companies. A “Declaration of Independents” if you will.

Equity 40

Equity Capital Gains Bootstrapping Distribution 40

Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Thus, a company should generally incorporate before launching a product or a service due to potential liability issues, as the risk of liability to a founder increases with customers or users. Starting capital gains holding period in the event of a stock sale. Obtaining visas. If a non-U.S. per share.

IP 67

IP Stock Options Preferred Stock Capital Gains 67

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Lighter Capital has funded companies with growth rates ranging from single digits to >500%. BJ Lackland observes, “Our customers are 10% VC-backed, 45% bootstrapped and 45% angel-backed.”. Taxable as ordinary income , unlike traditional VC which is normally taxed as long-term capital gains. return after-taxes.

Revenue 60

Revenue SBIC Cofounder Venture Capital 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

If I need to drastically increase the amount of product I sell or customers I attract to make good money, and that requires more of my own time to achieve, or cannot be easily outsourced to others (it often increases your labor just to organize outsourcers, so don’t assume outsourcing is a magic solution), that’s not the method for me.

Affiliate 112

Affiliate Internet Software Review Advertising 112

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. I see there is no support for the assertions that the benfits of using standardized documents outweights the costs of customizing and negotiating important issues. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. Less likely for mischief by subsequent investors.

Finance 40

Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

In your experience in helping these businesses get up and operational, what type of entity structures are you seeing most of your customers kind of get into or set up at? That’s a little more complicated, because there can be dividends, interest or capital gains, and there’s different tax rates for those.

.Net 85

.Net Capital Gains Distribution Puerto Rico 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It’s amazing to me that a company that just a little over 5 years ago was struggling to attract capital at much more than $100 million valuation can now ACQUIRE companies for this amount. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

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

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 29, 2010

As is custom at this time I year I like to look back at what I’ve done during the previous year and what I’ve got planned for next year. As is custom, I will release a free report in the lead-up to opening the course, which will be a complete document and full of content you can use without ever needing to spend a cent.

Programming 86

Programming Restful Internet Hiring 86

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

There were issues around pushing employees to the brink when it came to trying to overcome the growing backlog of customer service issues--work over holidays, late nights, etc. Yet, when Jeff Bezos famously opened up his e-mail address to customers, redirecting the onslaught to individual employees with his famous single character “?”

Cofounder 216

Cofounder Founder Employee Silicon Valley 216

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In case you don’t know, “the “9-9-9 plan” would replace all current taxes (including the payroll tax , capital gains tax , and the estate tax ) with 9% business transaction tax; 9% personal income tax rate, and a 9% federal sales tax.” Or simplifying the purchasing process for customers.

Utah 289

Utah Differentiation Campaign Mexico 289