Advisor Insights
Should You Use a 401(k) to Fund a Start-Up?
Derek Notman, CFP®, ChFC, CLU October 2, 2017
In the early stages of starting a business most entrepreneurs, at least those who are doing it for the first time, are looking for any and all sources to fund their new start-up. One source of funding (i.e. venture or seed capital) that a lot of entrepreneurs have access to is their 401(k) retirement account from a previous employer.
For example, there are a lot of start-ups created by entrepreneurs who used to work at Epic, the massive health IT company based in Verona, Wisconsin. People work there for five years or so, making decent money and saving up in their 401(k).
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Post From IQDCalls Chat Room
Chat Room News Excerpts & Highlights Early Tuesday 10-03-17
chattels: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region –
Former Iraqi president and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani has passed away in Germany, aged 83.
chattels: Wladimir @vvanwilgenburg 4h4 hours ago Very good article: Opinion | Why the Kurdish referendum is none of Turkey's business
chattels: Why the Kurdish referendum is none of Turkey’s business By Asli Aydintasbas October 2 at 1:06 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/10/02/why-the-kurdish-referendum-is-none-of-turkeys-business/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b145fdf9e9fb
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Notes From The Field By Simon Black
October 3, 2017 En route from Caracas
Nightstick Democracy At Its Finest
The last several days in Venezuela have been absolutely mind-blowing.
Pretty much all the stories you’ve heard are true-- countless people eating out of garbage cans, the appalling shortages of basic staples like food, medicine, and even soap… and the lines.
Oh boy, the lines.
The longest lines I saw, in fact, were not at grocery stores, but at banks.
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DA Member News Highlights & Comments 10-03-17
Kaperoni: Parliamentary committee: a quarter of Iraq's budget goes for the salaries of the employees of the Kurds
History Tahrir:: 2017/9/30 11:12 [Where-Baghdad]
deputy chairman of the martyrs and victims of parliamentary Amal Attiya Saturday , "announced that major salaries of the Republic and former current as well as former members of the House of Representatives and both cases as well as those with special grades assigned to 30% of the state budget without the benefit of real their partnership in building Iraq.
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