Category: Featured Stories (Page 34 of 43)

by T.M. Brehmer, VPTax, Inc.

Taxes are a cost of doing business and should be viewed in that context.  If you make a reasonable attempt to follow the rules, most domestic tax authorities are reasonable.  If you ignore the rules, or go to extremes to avoid taxes, the results can be either expensive or just plain painful.

Entrepreneurs need to know there are essentially four types of domestic taxes:  income, payroll, sales & use and property.  Foreign jurisdictions may also impose value added, consumption and withholding taxes. Read More...

Javier Sevilla

Javier Sevilla is the CEO of Jobssy.com, and new startup we just love.    Jobssy isn’t just any job’s site.  It’s all about the artificial intelligence that underlies its recommendations. Jobssy reinvents the job Selection process finding automatically the right talented staff in the Cloud through Artificial Intelligence.

Connecting companies with their ideal candidates, and job-seekers with their ideal jobs, Jobssy cuts down on time spent by both, the company and the job-seeker, during the job search process using Artificial Intelligence technology. Read More...

Below are the photos from Founders Space San Francisco Roundtable, July 2011.

Topic: How to Manage Funding: How Much to Ask For, How to Allocate, & Money Pits.

Presenters: Jon Soberg of Blumberg Capital; Mairtini Ni Dhomhnaill of Accretive Solutions; andDaniel James of Three Rings. Read More...

Ice Breaker full day event on August 28th where we will facilitate entrepreneurship community to build their teams and meet co-founder and apply to our program – http://bit.ly/o2Zd2g.  This time we decided that we will accept teams of 3-5 members to apply to the program.

Ice Breaker Agenda August 28th:

• 9am – 12pm – Series of games, challenges and activities to find people who would you like to work with.
• 12pm – 1pm – Lunch break (food and drink provided)
• 1pm – 2:30pm – Participants pitch their ideas
• 2:30pm – 4pm – Form teams and apply to the Idea Accelerator program

Idea Accelerator schedule Read More...

Karen Janowski

by Karen Janowski of Traction Team

I find that many startup CEOs carry around – but may not verbalize – a definition of marketing as one or more of the following: Read More...

Below are photos from July’s Silicon Valley Roundtable…

Topic: How to Network with Angels, VCs and Advisors before You Need the Cash.

Presenters: Bill Reichert of Garage Technology Ventures; Klaus Hambuechen of The Angels’ Forum;Jack Wolosewicz of MediaClaw. Read More...

Daniela Baker

by Daniela Baker at CreditDonkey

Many people are using credit cards these days to finance their start-up business. Their reasoning is varied but often is tied to the convenience that a credit card presents. However, before you jump into financing your start-up with credit cards, it is important for you to research the risks involved as well as the alternative modes of financing that are available to you, as Daniela Baker from CreditDonkey now explains. Read More...

Join us for the Founders Space Silicon Valley Roundtable, where founders gather to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. Roundtables are geared to founders and C-level executives of growth-oriented companies for exploring critical issues and business opportunities with peers and subject matter experts.

Each Roundtable tackles a specific subject, such as negotiating a term sheet, creating a marketing plan, filing patents, raising venture capital, etc.  The session begins with industry experts, who provide an overview of the topic and detailed business advice.  Then we break up into smaller groups, where participants can ask questions and receive advice and feedback from the panelists, advisors, and other founders.

Topic: How to Network with Angels, VCs and Advisors before You Need the Cash. Read More...

Join us for the Founders Space San Francisco Roundtable, where founders gather to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. Roundtables are geared to founders and C-level executives of growth-oriented companies for exploring critical issues and business opportunities with peers and subject matter experts.

Sign up here for the Founders Space San Francisco Roundtable

Each Roundtable tackles a specific subject, such as negotiating a term sheet, creating a marketing plan, filing patents, raising venture capital, etc.  The session begins with industry experts, who provide an overview of the topic and detailed business advice.  Then we break up into smaller groups, where participants can ask questions and receive advice and feedback from the panelists, advisors, and other founders. Read More...

Eyal Bino

by Eyal Bino of the Worldwide Investor Network

“Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made” – this phrase has become almost as ubiquitous as the age-old question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” While the nature of entrepreneurs can be argued endlessly, there are a few qualities that an entrepreneur must embody in order to be successful. Here are 5 must-have attributes that facilitate entrepreneurial success. Read More...