Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Over the past few years, I’ve spent some time thinking about how the government can help entrepreneurship. It started with my role as the co-chairman of the Colorado Governors Innovation Council which was my first involvement in any formal way with any government initiative. Necessity will drive efficiency.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. Toxic Business Press and Contradictory Government Incentives.

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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%.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Independent businesses should provide equity or equity-like profit sharing to all employees that should be reported in percentage of company/profits vs. number of shares. Independent businesses provide a real time view into companies financials and make that available to all employees. A “Declaration of Independents” if you will.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By providing a contactless mobile payment interface, millions of unbanked customers can accept payments using NFC technology. But analyzing data will go beyond capital gains and be used to create smarter policies for those in need, as noted in Gartner Group’s “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021.”. billion by 2022.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

Oftentimes, the example is, in your business you have an employee. Now as a business owner, you take two hats and put both on sometimes simultaneously, one as the investor and owner of the business, and the other area is as the employee of the business. They get injured on the job. Yes, you have insurance. Let’s be honest here.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. They got worse. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

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