Seeing Both Sides

MAY 31, 2010

But I cheated and peeked at my email late Saturday afternoon and discovered an email from a friend saying, "I'm surprised to see you take such a public stance on the capital gains tax rates," with a link to a New York Times article on the topic. towards investment and job creation.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2010

It’s being circulated in the New York Times and Techcrunch that Google Ventures has purchased $25M in shares of HomeAway from existing shareholders at a reported valuation of $1.4B. Capital gains tax rates may go up after Jan 1st, and some people need to acquire that new Ferarri 458 or buy that ski cabin in Aspen.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

The company had raised several rounds of venture capital before selling to Amazon, so let's assume that the founders were diluted substantially and each only owned 10% of the company at the time of the sale. If they lived in the state of New York, on a $250,000 salary, they would pay $58,069.50 So, let's do their taxes.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Clayton Christensen article in the New York Times last weekend which argues that the poor performance of the American economy is explained by a lack of empowering (i.e. job creating) innovation. This is, I think, an important point. Fred Wilson has since blogged twice about it.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. coasts housed 9 of the top 10 areas for average earnings (compared to only 3 in 1980).

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

The New York Times reports today on Judy Estrin’s new book , ‘ Closing The Innovation Gap’ , which I plan to read with interest when it comes out later this week. The article summarizes key elements of the book as follows– ‘Ms. to stay in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I was going to run my first live event, Million Dollar Blogging Secrets , with my friend and million dollar blogger Alborz Fallah this year, but we decided to postpone what we had planned for New York for many reasons, one of which being we simply started organizing it too late.

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Programming Restful Internet Hiring 86

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

CEO Travis Kalenick was caught on film arguing with an Uber driver about Uber’s new plans to lower fares. The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal.

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