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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

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

Steve Blank

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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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

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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Startups Need To Be Skeptical Of Bank Funding Offers

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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Should An Entrepreneur Seek Out An Investment Bank?

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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6 Ways To Easily Decrease Your Crypto Tax Liability

YoungUpstarts

There was a time when many didn’t bother to report their crypto gains on their taxes, but following the IRS forcing Coinbase to hand over customer data it’s become far more important to correctly account for cryptocurrencies in your taxes. This functionally allows you to trade the short term capital gains tax for the long term version.

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Can An Investment Bank Enhance Your Startup Future?

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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