Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Bad behavior but prevalent.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

by Evan Stephens, tax manager at Sensiba San Filippo. Profit from ISOs have the potential to be taxed as long-term capital gain, which is a considerably lower rate than NQSOs, which are generally taxed as ordinary income. Evan Stephens is a tax manager at Sensiba San Filippo. Incentive Stock Option (ISO).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

But while some of America’s most powerful lawmakers focus on cutting Big Tech down to size, how many of the major challenges we face, as a country and as part of the greater global community, can we solve without major technological activity and innovation? That’s why Ro Khanna’s perspective is valuable in this moment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below you will find a list of stories about successful entrepreneurs and the techniques they have used to manage people and develop successful business plans. Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff. Written By: Chip Gaines, Narrated By: Chip/Joanna Gaines. Principles: Life and Work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." Its a particularly good combination both to be good at technology and to face problems that can be solved by it, because technology changes so rapidly that formerly bad ideas often become good without anyone noticing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. Let’s face it.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

And as good as the news has been in the Housing and Stock markets, it pales in comparison to this Golden Age of technology and venture investing that we are currently experiencing. Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

However, the maturity date and the debt-nature of the note are often responsible for exerting pressure on founders that changes their focus from building value in the company, to instead “managing” the note holders and/or looking at doing a financing. Every first time founder needs to learn what it means to manage a board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

It’s in bad shape because managers everywhere make investment decisions using Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) or Return on Net Assets (RONA) models which lead them to seek efficiency innovations which improve profits but eliminate jobs. The Ford Model T was an empowering innovation, as was the Sony transistor radio.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

You have to be careful to manage your desire to scale something with your desire to make it passive. I managed to make spare change selling my cards through these sites. This idea eventually ballooned into a full on English school with a real world premises that I managed for eight months before closing down.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. If Java happens to be the right technology platform to use, then so be it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. And last quarter we now know grew at just 1.6%. Such is the case with advanced batteries. today (and that excludes the effects of inflation).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We’re volunteer run and managed and in developing that community, I’ve learned a thing or two that makes me a bit skeptical about whether DAOs as we’re witnessing them today are going to make great organizations. Last year, even during a pandemic, we helped nearly 7,000 people experience human powered boating on the Brooklyn waterfront.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s.

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