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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team. Stay Tuned.

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With New 21 Percent Corporate Tax Rate, S-Corps Are Taking A Second Look At C-Corp Status

YoungUpstarts

by Lance Christensen, Susan Jacobini Harrington, and James Graff, Partners at Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP. In addition, if your business operations are located overseas, repatriation provisions under the new tax law may make a switch to C-Corp status tax advantageous. The operative word here, though, is qualified.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital. The modal disagreement inside a VC: Partner X invested in a company, which is now performing below expectations.

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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

But analyzing data will go beyond capital gains and be used to create smarter policies for those in need, as noted in Gartner Group’s “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021.”. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Cash Crunch? 5 Unconventional Ways To Fund Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When banks turn their backs, founders usually take one of two roads: The first is bootstrapping, which involves liquifying all assets and operating on personal cash; the second is securing funding from family and friends. Seek potential partners. These potential investors make wonderful partners. How does owner financing work?

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LP Conference

BeyondVC

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). At the end of the day, VCs are in the capital gains business.

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