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April 1 2010
by John Backus
Virginia to Entrepreneurs: Start Your Business Here – And Pay No Capital Gains Tax!
Capital Gains taxes on high-tech entrepreneurial startups are going away in Virginia – at least for three years. Founders, Angel Investors, Venture Capital Fund Investors, Corporate Investors to benefit. On Tuesday, March 30th, newly elected Republican Governor Bob McDonnell signed into law House Bill 523 (Senate Bill 428), which provides a 100% capital gains tax ...
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November 19 2009
by Todd Hixon
The Death of B2B Venture Capital?
At the October 21 Xconomy “Global Vision for Venture Capital …” forum, Terry McGuire remarked that Polaris has stopped taking risk on commercial/industrial technology start-ups, as the recent experience has not been good. That’s a consequential thing. “Commercial/industrial technology” encompasses enterprise software, most of telecom and datacom, and large parts of clean tech. Note that ...
May 9 2009
by Todd Hixon
IT Panel: TLH notes from the NVCA Annual Meeting
Moderator = Chip Hazard (a VC)Panel:CIO of TransUnionPartner at Bain who does IT consultingDavid Skok, Matrix GPCIOs cutting 10-20% based on expected revenue shortfalls of 10%-40% have lost discretionary spending ability Focus is on short term savings and efficiency, not on the future 50% discount rate, need payback within a budget year variablize costs — ...
