Readit Newsatlasunshrugged commented on The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad ro.co/perspectives/super-... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
Despite being clearly self-serving to further promote their ad/product, I found this to be really interesting and detailed in enumerating the cost-benefit analysis they went through
atlasunshrugged commented on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital economist.com/britain/202... · Posted by u/ellieh
Having a London domicile often leads to an overstating in venture capital raised for the UK ecosystem.
For example, I've funded Polish and Indian startups that chose the UK as their legal domicile because we couldn't be bothered to hire a legal team to draft a contract to Polish or Indian specifications.
Builder.ai [0] is a great example of that - it was an Indian startup that was domiciled in London to simplify raising capital from Gulf investors.
[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/926f4969-fda7-4e78-b106-4888c8704...
Does this also impact US metrics for capital raised? My understanding is that the Delaware C-Corp is still the startup standard for founders from anywhere in the world to raise global capital, which I imagine skews where the capital actually ends up flowing if they are actually building a company in a foreign location and just using the Delaware entity as a holding co.