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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. Humans Don’t Scale Sure you can help human workers be more productive over time but they’ll never be as efficient as software automation or customer self-service. Whenever I have a question I just email the VP of the product and they respond really quickly.”

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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity. This is a problem that solopreneurs and early-on product startups run into frequently. Don’t fall victim to a productivity bottleneck- scale as you need to.

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Last year, I went to an National Venture Capital Association dinner where the President of the organization, Bobby Franklin, spoke about all the great things our lobbying group was doing for VCs—like keeping our carried interest tax loophole. But second, it just makes the product better. Absolutely. and the idea of “do no harm”.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. VCs also get capital gains tax rates on “carried interest,” which is what irritates the masses.

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