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Part 1 of this Primer series talked about the history and limited liability of corporations. Part 2 dove into the corporate hierarchy. This post will dive into investment structures. Part 1 (history)Part 2 (structures)Part 3 (grants, debt, and equity) Grants All the young companies I meet want to raise money. I do a lot of work in Africa and thus do meet quite a few companies that receive grants...
Part 1 of this Primer series talked about the history and limited liability of corporations. This post will dive into the structure of a corporation. Part 1 (history)Part 2 (structures)Part 3 (grants, debt, and equity) Shares and shareholders Corporations have owners. For a typical corporation, these are the “shareholders” (sometimes called stockholders). What are the shares? A...
First time entrepreneurs are often the CEO of a corporation, but nonetheless don’t know exactly what a corporation actually is, nor how a corporation works with employees, management, directors, and investors. This series of posts will walk through those details. Not as a lawyer, as I am neither a lawyer nor have ever taken a class at a law school (not counting the one I guest lecture I...
While I’ve been down the rabbit hole of nostalgic computing, others are looking at the coming century of computing. TL;DR (but please do read the post, as it’s good), the end of Moore’s Law is going to set off a “Cambrian Explosion” of new hardware designs. I’ve not seen that prediction before, and it seems likely to me. In looking back at the 1970s era of...
In the last few months I’ve re-experienced the power of speeding up these iterative learnings, not in business but in my re-kindled hobby of programming. I’ve been turning my nostalgic visions of what 1970s computing could have been into an emulated Apple II4, complete with an emulated 652402 CPU. Why? It’s a hobby. It is fun to once again write code without being paid, taking...
