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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. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section.

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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

If you weren’t invited to the event, there is a web site called Reducing Barriers to Innovation that you can participate in. Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e.

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? 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.

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Startup = Growth

paulgraham.com

Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to search the web. Over the next few years their problem became everyones problem, as the web grew to a size where you didnt have to be a picky search expert to notice the old algorithms werent good enough. But in Googles case the most important change was the growth of the web.

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My Big Plans For 2011 (Plus What You Need To Focus On Next Year)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Why Am I Doing This Now As I was writing the introduction to the 2-Hour Work Day report I was thinking over the previous ten years of my life, looking at the different ways I’ve made money.

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Startup founders: Here’s why vesting is your best friend

The Next Web

Vesting means that at the very beginning each founder gets his or her full package of stocks at once to avoid getting taxed for capital gains; but, the company has the right to purchase a percentage of the founder’s equity in case he or she walks away. This is why vesting is so important. Investing in vesting.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

To simply connect to the web with dial up took ‘minutes’ and now it takes 4 seconds to download a 2 hour movie using 5g. But when the web 2.0 This is easy to do when you can see who is getting traction on your very own web services. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. How Big is Big Tech really?