Entrepreneurs as tax dodgers
It’s a little early for April Fools, and perhaps it is just my long exposure to entrepreneurs, but there is actually an argument circulating which labels entrepreneurs as tax cheats. This is because...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of Early-Stage Financing
Funding options and pathways for early-stage companies are changing – more rapidly now than at any time in the past quarter century. We’ve detailed many of the changes individually in these...
View ArticleThe Film Industry’s SOPA Story
SOPA – federal legislation that would either protect or constrain content on the internet, depending on your corner – was recently killed thanks in no small part to the entrepreneurial online...
View ArticleA Cold Shower for Startup Communities?
Like many people, we are big fans of startup communities. We’d like to think that the benefits of these groups, and their economic and social impact, is self-evident. But we’re even bigger fans of...
View ArticleAirwaves of Disruption
Disruptive technology is often seen as binary: you are or you are not. However, it’s more often a matrix: a technology can be anywhere from slightly to very disruptive to a user base that also varies...
View ArticleWeedconomics
The intersection of theoretical economics and practical reality are often akin to the collisions between the Roadrunner and ACME products. Often these two forces align over time, but the blackboard...
View ArticlePatient, Know Thyself
While political pundits might consider 2013 the year of the “no,” biotechies might think about it as the year of the “know.” Who can know what, what knowledge is patentable, and knowing how it can be...
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