Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
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. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). Engineering Capital.
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VC Adventure
MAY 19, 2010
No matter how you feel about Congress’ efforts to change the tax classification of VC profits from capital gains to ordinary income it’s worth a read (and keeping an open mind). My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress.
paulgraham.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
Whereas a search engine, for example, is. If you start a search engine you have to compete with the whole world. But unlike most people they had the technical expertise both to notice that existing search engines were not as good as they could be, and to know how to improve them. A barbershop isnt designed to grow fast.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MARCH 25, 2011
Back before search engines were any good most of my time was spent in particular Magic newsgroups, some that talked strategy, and some that were focused specifically on trading and/or buying and selling cards. Thus began my love affair with banner advertising.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Facebook – about $80 a year per person.
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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