Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The Capital Factory Center for Defense Innovation is an unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sector that brings together entrepreneurs and government innovators shoulder-to-shoulder in a coworking environment where they can learn from each other. public, private, debt, equity, market return, concessionary capital, etc.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Cost: $15 Members; $40 Non-members & Guests; please register by 3:00pm on May 24th.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. Unlike small business entrepreneurs, their interest is not in earning a living but rather in creating equity in a company that eventually will become publicly traded or acquired, generating a multi-million-dollar payoff.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they What’s bringing them here? Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California?

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

The cost: it’s much more profitable for traditional lenders to do a two million dollar loan, or a three million dollar loan than doing a $150,000 loan or $100,000 loan. Angels and equity: there are businesses and angel funds out there in various parts of the U.S. Sabrina you think that answers the question? Hopefully that does.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

Raising the debt ceiling and reducing the budget without additional government stimulus is likely to slow the growth of the overall economy. Cost of capital may increase. State and local government cuts may come quickly. The decreases to the Federal budget will impact greatly on state and municipal budgets.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

and invited anyone with constructive, practical ideas on how to revitalize IPO’s in the United States to contact me so that I could pass along their ideas to my colleagues at the National Venture Capital Association. On November 24, 2008 I wrote A Case Study in the Unintended Consequences of Financial Regulation: The Death of the U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Anything beyond 36 months just doesn't seem credible - and shouldn't even matter that much when you think about the next issue - a start-up's cost of capital. 2) Your cost of capital is too low. Ask an entrepreneur about their cost of capital and you'll likely get a blank stare.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. D&O insurance is a “cost of respect” for board members.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? We need to wait for the government to fix it." You’ve got to build equity value."

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Then there’s Nobu and the institution he has built through all of his restaurants in many different cities in the United States and maybe abroad. The opportunity cost of the money I have not made on crypto is insane because I first was talking about crypto in 2011 as I’ve been in financial services for a long time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. It’s huge.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. Everyone’s going to get a year of healthcare in the United States.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. Everyone’s going to get a year of healthcare in the United States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. In the boom times, everything gets more expensive except cost of capital. We owe our grandparents a debt of gratitude for the institutions that still govern our daily life. So many of the iconic companies you know began in a crisis.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 22, 2009

In their view, the dramatic proliferation of competing markets and the extraordinary rise in high velocity trading have had only beneficial results: greater liquidity, narrowed spreads and lower transaction costs for all investors. As a nation, our credit and equity markets should be a crown jewel.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Today the United States is in great power competition with China. Last month the U.S. for the last several decades.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Everyone, including opponents of giving legal status to millions of “illegal” or undocumented residents, seems to agree that our immigration system is broken: We have a system that has millions of people living in America in the shadows, defying the law, yet doing work that makes it possible for the rest of us to enjoy great luxuries at low cost.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The Fortune 500 have understood for years that the real growth action is to be had overseas, and today make more than 50% of their profits outside the United States. They would feel at least a nominal sense of equity and wealth in what is for most Americans their major asset. small business exports.

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