All venture capitalists have probably experienced a bad pitch from an entrepreneur. But a couple years ago, the team at Canaan Partners heard a real sleeper. No, we mean, a real sleeper. The chief executive and vice president of sales for a start-up company visited Canaan’s Menlo Park, Calif., office. Just as the CEO was ...
You’ve come up with a world-changing idea, or at least an industry-changing idea. You have a business plan. Maybe you’ve even written some code or built a prototype. Now all you need is those few thousand bucks–or a few tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks–to get your new venture up and running. All that ...
Is there a small business that hasn’t needed more capital at some stage of development? And is there a small business owner who hasn’t thought of an angel investor as an ideal source of the capital he or she needs? But finding an angel investor isn’t like finding a clam on the beach; the search ...
Endless articles, books, and blogs have been written on the topic of business plan presentations and pitching to investors. In spite of this wealth of advice, almost every entrepreneur gets it wrong. Why? Because most guides to pitching your company miss the central point: The purpose of your pitch is to sell, not to teach. ...
This Google search will provide the latest information on State and Federal bills/laws to provide tax credits for those investing in start-up small businesses as Angels.
A taxpayer may be allowed to exclude from taxable income a portion of the gain realized on the sale of qualified small business stock. There are two sections of the Internal Revenue Code that provide such an opportunity. Section 1202 permits a taxpayer to exclude a specified percentage of such gain, while §1045 permits a ...
I bought a franchise in 2001 and created an Oregon C-Corp of which I am the only officer and shareholder. I capitalized the venture with $25,000 of capital stock (100 shares, no par value) and, over the next two years, $250,000 in shareholder loans. I sold all the assets of the corporation back to the ...
Under the IRC, you can only deduct ordinary losses against ordinary gains, and you can only deduct capital losses against capital gains. Since most people usually have much more ordinary income than they have capital gains, ordinary losses are usually more useful than capital losses in reducing one’s taxable income. Owners of unincorporated businesses who ...
For once the government and entrepreneurs have one thing in common: they both think that investing in small growing businesses is a good idea. In order to encourage investment in small businesses, Congress has authorized tax benefits for people who invest in certain small businesses. If a small business meets the definition of a Qualified ...