Start Up Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

You can draw out profits (capital gain) from a property that has grown in value and not pay tax on it. Investors should choose between yield or capital growth when investing. Capital gains tax on selling is 50% lower if you’ve held the property for over 12 months. The key to investing is compound growth.

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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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. The federal government has been a historically successful investor in innovation and the creation of new technologies, often through funding university research.

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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

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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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). &# A: Yes. Bad behavior but prevalent.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In 2018, the country enacted the first proper regulatory framework for DLT technologies. For all the promises of blockchain technology, startups in this day and age still need a strong banking background. The Innovative Technology Arrangements and Service Providers Bill. The Maltese Government supports startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2017

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. Stock investing tax deductions are limited to losses and payments for education and/or advisory services.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff. Written By: Chip Gaines, Narrated By: Chip/Joanna Gaines. Before becoming a HGTV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband and father, Chip Gaines was a serial entrepreneur.

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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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

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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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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Cut capital gains taxes to 1% for startups. Create a cabinet position (Secretary Newco) that is focused on pushing through initiatives that help startups and unleash millions of entrepreneurs. Staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign student who graduates from a US university. Create a meaningful entrepreneurs visa.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. And let’s say that it took 4 years to exit – that’s $31,250 / year. In California that averages around 42.5%

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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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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

To begin, it's not a fancy or proprietary technology created by some technical genius who graduated from MIT or Cal Tech. But then, they'll have to pay 15% capital gains on that $50 million, so they'll each only walk away with $42.5 Last week Amazon.com received regulatory approval for its $500 million acquisition of Quidsi Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

It transformed information technology that was previously accessible only to big companies into something that even small companies could afford. The Ford Model T was an empowering innovation, as was the Sony transistor radio. So were the personal computers of I.B.M. and Compaq and online trading at Schwab.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Terman encouraged students and professors alike to commercialize technology originally developed in the university research labs, spawning such important institutions as Varian Associates and Hewlett Packard. Technology transfer office. In many cases, this has led to creating centers of excellence (e.g.,

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Long term capital gains possible for early exit. I've not studied them yet, but at first glance I can see some really slick technologies being transferred into a Newco with these basic terms, and funding a lot more deal flow. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. Posted by: Gene | 03/04/2010 at 01:39 AM.

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VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2010

No matter how you feel about Congress’ efforts to change the tax classification of VC profits from capital gains to ordinary income it’s worth a read (and keeping an open mind). My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. I, for one, surely don’t think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All have been able to take some secondary stock sales along the way, all remain shareholders of the company and all benefit from late-stage capital provided by Accel, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital ( Scott Hilleboe ) and others. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. And the fifth?—?society?—?also

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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.”. A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund. Seed rounds were getting bigger. Series A had become the 4th round of funding. This created a vacuum at the earliest stages of funding. That’s the beautiful part.

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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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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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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

When research does produce new technologies, entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists who back them have been too cautious to make big bets — especially after the costly failures of the dot-com bust. and live and work here; (3) Promoting public-private partnerships to foster the earlier adoption of leading edge technologies by U.S.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

Technology makes selling information online relatively easy to automate, once you get through the learning curve. I also have several reports, an ebook and new products on the way. The profit margins on information products is significant, especially as you can earn money for content you created years ago.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. A new commodity which has been brought into the market by technology firms, priced and sold.

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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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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”. The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Massive sums are sitting on the sidelines just waiting to be more than just money, or cynically, waiting to be able to be money just without the whole capital gains part that comes with converting it back to fiat. to get a handle on—or perhaps those in the community just aren’t interested.

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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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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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