Jose Ferreira

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill to close the carried interest "loophole" for private equity investors. Currently, these investors pay capital gains tax rather than income tax on the upside they receive if their investments do well. Most private equity investors don't favor the new legislation, as...

Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton

When the EU formed in 1998, I was the crazy guy in the corner of the pub ranting to all my friends that it would one day come a cropper. Since there seems to be little appetite in Europe...

The new anti-Hispanic law in Arizona makes Thomas Friedman's excellent 4/3/10 piece Start-Ups, Not Bailouts worth another look. Two data points he cites are:

• "Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. were created by firms that were 5 years old or...

So, you want to be an entrepreneur. Well, it's a great time to start a business. We're in a jobless recovery, so the talent is out there for the picking. Sure, some VCs are a little gun-shy, but the smart ones are investing. How do you get them to invest...

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. But the NY scene has recently been getting uppity. Chris Dixon wrote a story, the NY Times wrote a story, now Silicon Alley Insider. I tweeted...

Google is playing hardball. After last week's ultimatum, the search giant appears to have left itself no way out: either China allows Google to operate uncensored or Google leaves China. Why would Google posture like that? Surely it's not serious about leaving China. What would be the point?...