VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. This excludes real estate prices and relates mainly to cost of living (prices of goods). Most expensive cost of living cities in the world (source: WEF ). Global tech correction. Strong foundations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

We must also remember that the movement of food and drink is not solely confined to the Dover Straits, as the Republic of Ireland sees significant volumes of produce cross its borders each year. Experts have already stated that this scenario must be “avoided at all costs” , although several challenges remain in order for this to be achieved.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. Co-Working Space.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. It may sound peculiar that the Canadian government is helping Canadian companies come to the US, but the logic is simple: they’ll have to open a US office anyway to become major companies, and if they do so it will create jobs back in Canada.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. It may sound peculiar that the Canadian government is helping Canadian companies come to the US, but the logic is simple: they’ll have to open a US office anyway to become major companies, and if they do so it will create jobs back in Canada.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

Both of these types of deferred retirement vehicles are governed by what’s called ERISA, Employee Retirement Income Security Act. We have $1 million business, annual revenue, $120,000 in payroll costs, $640,000 in other overhead. Remember, I said our payroll cost was $120,000, so that means $3,600 goes to our employee.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. Then the government says ‘hey, great news! Looking at an independent studies evaluation of government funded retraining programs shows that their efficacy rate tends to be between 0 and 15%.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The cost of losing a good employee is absolutely unbelievable. It’s the cost of having to train. It’s the cost of your reputation, whether it be in the community or when you’re trying to recruit other people. Sit down and plan out what it is that it’s going to completely cost you to hire this person.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Cyprus and Ireland. Lars Verspohl takes you along on a wonderful journey through cost and profit structures of movies. Bonus: In the spirit of government data, I’ll be remiss if I did not share with you three examples of interactive scatter plots from Our World in Data (produced by the University of Oxford). So on and so forth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher."

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