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How Sam Walton Taught Zuckerberg a Trick To Save His Kids $250M in Taxes

The Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn founders saved their children about $1B in taxes.  Zuckerberg, alone, saved […]

The Five Tax “DO NOTs” for Startups

1.    Doing your own payroll. • Do not even think twice about this one. Zen […]

Tax Deadlines for Startups

Most entrepreneurs who form an LLC or incorporate a business are not aware of their […]

83(b) Elections For Dummies

First, a few basics: If you have stock options, you do not need to file […]

The Best Kept Secret – How Your State Will Fund Your Startup’s Cash Flow Gap

Smartco Corp is a 2-year old startup that recently started selling product to a few […]

The Dumbest and Most Dangerous Startup Financing

Dumbo Corp is a 2-year old startup that recently started selling product to a few […]

You Incorporated Yesterday, Ten Things You Need To Do Today…

Well, maybe not today, but certainly within the next month. Get an Employer Identification Number […]

VC Term Sheet Lingo

To help those legalese challenged, we took the 10 most common terms found in a […]

How to Negotiate your Equity Compensation in VC-Backed Startups

In our work at venture-backed startups, we are amazed at how hard new employees will […]

UPDATE: Carried Interest. Inter-Partner Loans

As a follow-up to our recent post regarding the proposals to tax carried interest as […]