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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Flexible VC offers you this. Early liquidity. Thanks to Alawai H.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Often high enough to remove any local profit for operations in higher taxed economies. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes. Here is the kicker.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. Takeaway Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product.

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