SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. 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

APRIL 4, 2018

The two investment products offer different tax liabilities and require different costs to start. Because these funds are traded in much the same way stocks are, there is less gain that leads to tax liability. Investors who want to eliminate or reduce their capital gain liability may find a good ally in these funds.

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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. There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2017

IDCs are any costs associated with oil and gas production that cannot be resold (or recovered) later. Short-term capital gains (assets held for sale or exchange for exactly one year or less) are taxed at your ordinary income tax rate, and long-term capital gains are taxed at either 0, 15 or 20 percent.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

The VAT amount is the “cost of the product”, which is lesser than the total amount of the materials used to produce a product. These are income taxes, employment taxes, a corporation tax, a capital gains tax, an inheritance tax, excise duties on cigarettes, alcohol, and petrol, import duties, property taxes, and specialist taxes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

After the banking fiasco surfaced a few years ago, resulting in the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, investment banks seem to most of us more like a place to avoid, rather than a place to entrust with the keys to our investment livelihood.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 13, 2016

A month or so ago I wrote about that Mismeasurement may be at the heart of the productivity paradox. The major differences between the consumption and income measures come from realised capital gains, dramatic increases in public and private benefits (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

After the banking fiasco surfaced a couple of years ago, resulting in the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, investment banks seem to most of us more like a place to avoid, rather than a place to entrust with the keys to our investment livelihood.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Cut capital gains taxes to 1% for startups. Hopefully when I look back on the time I’ve spent on this stuff I’ll feel like it’s been a productive effort for the cause of entrepreneurship and innovation in the US which is the thing I spend all my time actually working on by helping create new companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 4, 2021

They make money off of equity and stock option gains, as well as investment partnership interests that are taxed at lower capital gains rates. Many companies found that their employees worked just as productively at home—especially for those who had any childcare needs taken care of—and they’re happier not having a commute.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

His definition of empowering innovation: [Empowering innovations] transform complicated and costly products available to a few into simpler, cheaper products available to the many. and of efficiency innovation: [Efficiency innovations] reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

That’s an invaluable exercise, which is probably even *more* important in the early stages of the company, while you’re still trying to figure out the technology, the product, the market, the pricing, the team. In the case of equity holders, they would have been in long-term capital gains and pay 15% on the gains.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

It operates three e-commerce websites: Diapers.com (baby care), Soap.com (health, beauty and household essentials) and BeautyBar.com (luxury beauty products). And for Amazon, these three sites (and their vast inventories and product mixes) will allow it to better compete with brick-and-mortar chains like Target and Wal-Mart.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

After the banking fiasco surfaced a year or so ago, resulting in the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, investment banks seem to most of us more like a place to avoid, rather than a place to entrust with the keys to our investment livelihood.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Launching a service/product and general liability issues. Thus, a company should generally incorporate before launching a product or a service due to potential liability issues, as the risk of liability to a founder increases with customers or users. Starting capital gains holding period in the event of a stock sale.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Customers and users burned by VC backed startup after VC backed startup may start looking around for independent alternatives who aren’t looking to sell them out, or sell out themselves, only to have the products they love and rely on killed by acquiring companies. If these ideals ring true, perhaps there could be a way to codify them.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Turn the question on its head: How could it make sense to lend money to a brand new, seed-stage company with no revenue, no products, and no collateral? (You In that sense it’s more like a warrant or option with a zero exercise price.). How can this possibly make sense? You won’t see banks doing that.)

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

These R&D investments matter because they enhance productivity, which enables the formation of new (and often higher-wage) jobs. Productivity enhancements can also help reduce income inequality. For every 1% increase in productivity, wages for low-skilled workers rise at roughly double the rate of those for high-skilled workers.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Dividends paid and capital gains realized on a per-share basis provide ordinary shareholders with a way to participate in the profits stream of the company. It is possible to participate in a company’s capital gains (losses) without purchasing its common stock if the owner of a warrant holds it for a lengthy period of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It’s amazing to me that a company that just a little over 5 years ago was struggling to attract capital at much more than $100 million valuation can now ACQUIRE companies for this amount. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.

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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.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

If I need to drastically increase the amount of product I sell or customers I attract to make good money, and that requires more of my own time to achieve, or cannot be easily outsourced to others (it often increases your labor just to organize outsourcers, so don’t assume outsourcing is a magic solution), that’s not the method for me.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve used owner financing to buy single and multiunit real estate quickly and with great results — and my sellers like avoiding capital gains taxes and recouping more money over time. You pay the owner monthly, and you receive an instant business in return. How does owner financing work? Secure terms from suppliers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I use my calendar for both personal and work related appointments, so you will find anything from a reminder to send an email to promote a certain product, a group or private coaching call, a scheduled interview, my plans for the weekend, coffee shop meetings with friends or a date with a lucky lady. That’s about to change.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When a startup both begins with an idea exposed by technological change and makes a product consisting of technology in the narrower sense (what used to be called "high technology"), its easy to conflate the two. Every successful startup is at least partly a product of the imagination of growth. [

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. Its appeal is that it is completely decentralized.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Posted at 02:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBack (0) | Reblog (1) 02/24/2010 About the Series Seed Documents A decade ago, a company would need to raise a couple of million of dollars to create a new product and effectively bring it to market. Today that amount is dramatically smaller.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 11, 2010

5) The attempt to link tax rates with wealth creation is hugely complicated because we are now talking about investment returns versus economic productivity. The problem with highly progressive tax systems is that they dis-incentivize productive people from being productive. Let’s tackle an easy one, CEO compensation.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

But I think we can all agree we’ve got a bit of a problem with friends, followers, fans, likes and especially free products. We could take the product home and test it in the lab. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. They had to stop polluting and actually make sure their products were safe.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

3) Keep capital gains taxes low. Increasing capital gains taxes will reduce productive capital investment and should be avoided like the plague. Let's allow ourselves to continue to be a talent magnet for the world's best talent. The government should look elsewhere for incremental revenue sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Additionally, Convertible Equity is “equity” that may have a lower capital gains tax benefit for investors, since it is likely classified as “qualified small business stock”. Product: The Funded. Basically, Convertible Equity removes the repayment at maturity and interest provisions of Convertible Debt. Photo Credit/ 22dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For example, when it comes to something like your employees , it’s not just about productivity, but it’s about ensuring their well-being is catered for. Because there are some funds that are taxed at capital gains rates , which can be upwards of 20%. But this is down to you to ensure your knowledge is sound.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In case you don’t know, “the “9-9-9 plan” would replace all current taxes (including the payroll tax , capital gains tax , and the estate tax ) with 9% business transaction tax; 9% personal income tax rate, and a 9% federal sales tax.”

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Even when a female founder isn’t blamed for anything related to her own company culture and creates a genuinely female-friendly product, like Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, she gets attacked for her association with a problematic male business partner and investor. Maybe he’s just nicer in Slack channels? I have my doubts.

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