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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. This change was made permanent by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, signed into law on December 18, 2015.

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Unlocking the M&A code: 5 factors that can make (or break) a deal

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Frank Roe Contributor Share on Twitter Frank Roe is CEO of SmartBear , a provider of software development and visibility tools. It is essential to approach the decision and process with diligence and forethought. For instance, in 2015, PayPal acquired Braintree, a payments company that owned the mobile payment service, Venmo.

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Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service

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Per Ezeugwu, WYL was founded back in 2015 and raised $1.1 The startup charges building owners $2 per unit, per month for its software, a figure that Ezeugwu said can be discounted for larger contract volumes. Let’s see how quickly it can scale its software incomes. million over a roughly seven-year period.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

TechCrunch

They, along with Sophia Baik, started CodeSignal in 2015 to act as a self-driving interview platform that directly measures skills regardless of a person’s background. At the same time, employers are able to assign each candidate the same coding task based on the open position. “Hiring talent is the No.

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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

Honeycomb

is how you operate your code; observability 2.0 is about how you develop your code Observability 1.0 has historically been infra-centric, and often makes do with logs and metrics software already emits, or that can be extracted with third-party tools Observability 2.0 is how you operate your code; observability 2.0

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With a fresh $46M, Instabug aims to do more than fix your app’s bugs

TechCrunch

For one, the company expanded its focus from bug and crash reporting to building out application performance monitoring software “to capture everything around mobile performance.”. The company was founded in 2013, first released its offering in beta in 2015, and publicly launched in February 2016 during its time at Y Combinator.

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How search accelerates your path to “AI first”

CIO

In aggregate across 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2023, the data from these questions shows that legacy search engines that have not significantly advanced in the last five years have struggled to keep up with the increasing volume and variety of organizational data. The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.