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

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Protecting Yourself from Counterfeit Products

The Startup Magazine

In the names don’t match, one ought to consider that a red flag. If still in doubt, the alternative is to use a search engine to find out more about the company and product reviews. Looking at ratings and feedback is essential, along with visiting their Amazon profiles to learn more about them. Additional Measures.

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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. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. This isn’t true.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. Ted - I think if you simply remove the spaces in the file names, that should solve the download problems, e.g. the term sheet doc should be renamed to "SeriesSeedTermSheet.doc" Same with the others. :). it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link].

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

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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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees. Owning the stock has a potentially significant tax advantage: it starts the timer for long-term capital gains.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

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.