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Use IRS Code Section 1202 to sell your multimillion-dollar startup tax-free

TechCrunch

Using a QSB can eliminate capital gains tax due on the future business sale if the company is established and stock issued pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 1202. Use IRS Code Section 1202 to sell your multimillion-dollar startup tax-free by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence: Now a best practice in Merger & Acquisition (M&A)

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Cooley is an international law firm recognized for its technology practice and experience in multiple practice areas, including Mergers and Acquisition (the firm has handled over 1,000 M&A transactions since 2010). Specialists with substantive knowledge are now often brought in to perform detailed diligence in these technical areas.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. trillion per year.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

TechCrunch

However, due to RBI being a relatively new model, publicly available data is limited. Beyond B2B SaaS and impact investing, many other verticals are adopting the model as well, including e-commerce/D2C, consumer software, food and beverage, and more. based revenue-based investing firms. This figure of $592.8

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months

TechCrunch

The payments giant was founded in 2010, so the fact that it’s exploring avenues for exit is not entirely surprising. The company’s products, in its own words, power payments for online and in-person retailers, subscriptions businesses, software platforms and marketplaces, “and everything in between.”

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