Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. Racial equity protests campaigned hard for change in how policing is done. We made donations, wrote letters, and did what we could to secure Joe Biden’s victory. We live along a well-traveled ambulance path. We took to the streets to celebrate.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet. The names and addresses of venture capitalists are also available in a couple of annual directories: The Western Association of Venture Capitalists publishes an annual directory. Traditionally, angel investment was limited by U.S.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Legally Secure Your Intellectual Property Position. Give early thought to these matters and obtain registrations to cut down the possibility of another business trading off your name and reputation. Also, you should document any equity entitlements in the business if there are. Comply with Government Requirements.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. just to name a few! A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2019

Many businesses have been founded this way that are now big names in their respective industry. The most notable reason to grow a business using money from your own pocket is the unmatched independence and control that you gain because you don’t share equity with an external source. Bootstrapping. Business Grants.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

Thanks to Corey Philip, Acumen Equity Advisors ! #7- Analyze the interest rates and the investment amount that is under your name. You should think about switching loans from private ones to others like disaster relief and non-government grants. 7- Minimize experimentation. Photo Credit: Will Yang.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Letting small companies sell equity stakes online would be a huge boost to those firms—like angel investing on steroids. Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing. Instead, they'd have to start paying it back right away.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2012

Pocket MBA : From the developer named Mashable’s top maker of education apps for adults, Pocket MBA is a $10 crash course in business, running the gamut from marketing to IT to business law. Thomson Reuters Marketboard : Students and professionals alike can take advantage of this app to learn about global equity performance.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 26, 2017

Namely, that governments, civil society organizations, and the private sector have a role to play in ensuring that accessibility and inclusion are not an afterthought but a central component of their work. This blog contributes a clear overview of the main issues at stake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. As near as I can tell these are smaller ones, who don’t sell clothes, but typically sell companies and securities in a particular set of industries. Very confusing.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

Weirdly, it seems many governments (Australia and the USA come to mind) are more concerned with abstract concepts than real people’s needs. How quickly our federal government forgot that if we want the economy to survive, we need to go back to the original meaning of economics and help out households. Go to the source.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. As near as I can tell these are smaller ones, who don’t sell clothes, but typically sell companies and securities in a particular set of industries. Very confusing.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. Before Giftly, Dan was a Booth Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dan has a B.A.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. Examples could be (a) experience building Facebook games under the new notification rules or (b) knowledge of how to build exceptionally secure e-commerce sites. 5 Points: You are developing software for government or major corporate clients.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). He also says they need to be “must own” names. Are Asana, Palantir, ZipRecruiter, and Squarespace “must own” names?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. And so willing to make an investment to, to secure that income. So maybe they would have some home equity they could pull out or some savings. I mean, is that considered cash flow or is that considered an expense of the business?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

My full answer to this question follows: Public companies with equity market capitalizations of less than $1 billion have been negatively impacted by these market changes—and within this group, companies with capitalizations of $500 million or less have suffered the most. Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

in 2011 is not statistically meaningful and irrelevant to the thousands of startups that are finding it impossible to reach the much greater critical mass necessary to access the public equity capital markets today. Intuit, EA Sports, and many others.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

We're excited to be working with @theohubs to forge the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion this @sxsw. This panel will discuss the diversity dimensions: gender, culture, age, abilities, sexual orientation just to name a few. Entrepreneur, and Quartz. If you'll be at @sxsw , my session is on Monday, March 11th.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. There’s no formula however I do know … the more you build before you need to hire / partner, the more equity you can keep. the overseas business is a $billion security market.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. If I could add one more bonus idea, this is if you’re incorporating your company, I would think about taking 1% or 2% equity and setting it aside for other stakeholders. I won’t name other entrepreneurs. So these are some checklists.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Barry Silbert – Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest marketplace for illiquid securities. SecondMarket was named the top start-up in the entire Northeast by AlwaysOn Media and one of the Top Fifty Startups You Should Know by Businessweek. Space is limited. Register today. <

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. If I could add one more bonus idea, this is if you’re incorporating your company, I would think about taking 1% or 2% equity and setting it aside for other stakeholders. I won’t name other entrepreneurs. So these are some checklists.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. Mergers trigger job losses; IPO’s create jobs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

Payroll tax is Social Security, Medicare. You had your Social Security and Medicare that came out of your check. percent, Social Security and Medicare. Now there is a Social Security pay out but we don’t want to go there. Do you have significant assets that are accumulating in your personal name or will begin to?

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