Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

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. Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named”. Lessons Learned.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees. 4 Vesting.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. There are a now a handful of funds, K9 included, that are Pre-Seed funds in name and practice. In addition to K9, the following venture funds are all investing at the Pre-Seed stage: PivotNorth Capital.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. So it makes sense that we all use the same social media network and a single search engine that learns and gets better based on every search that is entered into it.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Dignity In A Digital Age , Khanna positions the tech industry as an economic engine that can revitalize huge swathes of the U.S. In a third, he suggests offering a capital gains tax credit to institutions that invest in nontraditional, Black- and Brown-run firms or those led by women.

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