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

Steve Blank

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. While the government says they love startups, the first thing they did this year is raise the capital gains tax. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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Protecting Yourself from Counterfeit Products

The Startup Magazine

If still in doubt, the alternative is to use a search engine to find out more about the company and product reviews. If a company is in a scandal about lifetime capital gains exemption, then it is best to seek alternative places to purchase the product or service in question. Additional Measures.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0

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Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

Startup Company Lawyer

The budget proposal would modify IRC Section 1202 to provide for a complete exemption from capital gains tax for qualified small business stock issued after February 17, 2009 and held for five years, and the amount excluded would not be added back for alternative minimum tax purposes. Current Law.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some worked; some did not. The biggest Wall Street crash since the Great Depression (October, 1987) shocked us all.

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Encouraging the right type of innovation

The Equity Kicker

Christensen suggests that capital gains tax should decline with the length of time an asset is held (we used to have that in the UK), and tax incentives to invest in longer term riskier assets are also a good idea (like the EIS scheme here in the UK). The good news is that a lot of this is happening already.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. Investors get stockholder rights (as opposed to being mere creditors). Less likely for mischief by subsequent investors. I'm hoping this will ease that problem.

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