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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

The longer you wait the higher the price they’ll have to pay and the less time the clock will be ticking on long-term capital gains tax. In the video we did a lengthy discussion on “the return of enterprise software&# talking about companies: Atlassian, Jive Software, KickApps, Yammer and SquareSpace.

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Understanding Stock Options

YoungUpstarts

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. Any proceeds from an exercise or sale become subject to taxation at the lower, long-term capital gains rate rather than ordinary income rates.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

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 January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” This isn’t true.

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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 has held several senior management positions in the software industry. According to research by Beroe, Inc., billion by 2022.

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6 Ways To Easily Decrease Your Crypto Tax Liability

YoungUpstarts

When you choose to sell off your stocks, bonds, or cryptocurrency, a special tax called a capital gains tax is assessed by the government. Short term capital gains can be taxed at a rate of up to 37% , compared to the maximum rate of 20% for investments held for over a year. Ensure Detailed Records are Kept.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. When I first began in this industry, people would claim that it’s cheap to start a software company. It is no longer cheap to start a software company. Seed rounds were getting bigger.