Thread: Marc Andreessen @pmarca tweetstorm from 2015-02-16 on how to expand the amount of startup founders: [RE-POST]
1/ More Montessori & Montessori-style, free-form, and/or project-based K-8 public & private schools.
1/ More Montessori & Montessori-style, free-form, and/or project-based K-8 public & private schools.
2/ Entrepreneurship magnet/charter schools -- specifically designed to produce entrepreneurs, vs. cogs in the industrial machine.
3/ Significantly expanded summer tech, science, math, entrepreneurship programs/camps for grades 5-12.
4/ Significantly expanded internship programs at tech companies of all sizes for both high school and college students.
5/ More interdisciplinary college programs -- particularly engineering + business, and liberal arts + engineering.
6/ Comprehensive inclusion programs for underrepresented groups for each of the preceding five ideas.
7/ More public research universities should pursue the Stanford/Berkeley mentality/model; also, repeal Bayh-Dole.
8/ Comprehensive legal and regulatory reform to open access to federally-funded research; also, pass Aaron's law.
9/ Reform, or better yet eliminate, software and business method patents. Redefine paten trolling as a form of felony extortion.
10/ Fully portable economy-wide benefits, including health care, retirement savings, and immigration status.
11/ Eliminate tax credits for home ownership, and implement tax credits for renters.
12/ Implement tax credits for child care services for working parents.
13/ "Opt in" innovation zones with regulatory relief for various categories of new technology.
14/ More long-lockup capital at all levels of corporate capital structure.
15/ Eliminate tax credits for corporate debt, and implement tax credits for corporate equity.
16/16 Zero capital gains tax for equity held for 5+ years, paid for by higher capital gains tax for equity held for <2 years.
