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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. Kara said “no” because she wanted to start her own company, which she did and I backed. Please help me welcome Kara into her role as Co-Managing Partner.

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4 Types Of Tax Structures For Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Each partner contributes capital, skill, labour,or property and shares in the partnership’s profits and losses. Rather, the tax burden is passed onto the partners. The downside of partnerships is that the liabilities incurred by one partner can affect your personal assets. A corporation is often used to create holding companies.

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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As So, what can companies do about it?

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How To Test Your Brand Relationship To Real Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

We are apt to forgive when we feel empathy for an offending partner. Sustained success in the future will require companies to dramatically shift their emphasis from short-term shareholder value to shared value for multiple stakeholders. Leaders need to come out from behind their curtain. Show your true colors.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. . He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. …

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With New 21 Percent Corporate Tax Rate, S-Corps Are Taking A Second Look At C-Corp Status

YoungUpstarts

by Lance Christensen, Susan Jacobini Harrington, and James Graff, Partners at Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP. Additionally, if your C-Corp is structured as a personal holding company, you may face the sizable headache of additional taxes, on top of the corporate tax rate, triggered by undistributed personal holdings company income.

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How To Focus On Relationships To Maximize Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

We are apt to forgive when we feel empathy for an offending partner. Sustained success in the future will require companies to dramatically shift their emphasis from short-term shareholder value to shared value for multiple stakeholders. Leaders need to come out from behind their curtain. Show your true colors.