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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

In today’s business environment where innovation and technology converge and the modern day entrepreneur has more support and incentive than ever to begin their dream startup company, more often than not discussions about state and local business taxes have a similar tone: “The company is losing money; we don’t owe any taxes.”.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

government has had a robust national science and technology policy, it lacks a national industrial policy; leaving that to private capital. government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. The irony is that while the U.S.

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Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev

This is going to be BIG.

Finding the right company to tuck into your product offering can be of tremendous strategic importance--especially if it means that your competitor didn't pick up that technology to use it against you. BeanSprout is helping on the business development side with a new marketplace, but that still doesn't solve the problem of inbound leads.

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New Microfund Launched

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Solidus Company announced today the formation of a microfund to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. Traditional venture capital funds require investments to be at least $1-5 million in size. JumpStart Foundry will focus on very early-stage concepts.