Startable – Healy Jones’ & Prasad Thammineni’s Blog

Funny. Last night I was watching the president speak at the state of the union address and fired off a tweet about something that caught my attention – elimination of the capital gains tax for small business investment. From @HealyHoops: Don’t understand how it will work, but sounds interestingRT @jsteig: eliminate cap gains on all small businesses . . . that’s good! #SOTU

Then I stop paying attention to Twitter… but lo and behold, CNN is using some pretty interesting social media measuring tools and somehow decides to mention my tweet on the air. You can see it here – my tweet is about one minute and forty seconds into the clip.

First of all, the social media monitoring and display technology they are using is pretty cool. It’s a pretty interesting segment.

Secondly, I do think that the elimination of small business taxes could be really powerful for sparking investment in local and startup businesses. I really don’t understand how it will work, as in what will stop it from becoming a vehicle for tax avoidance and how will it impact venture investing? Will GPs count as small business investors? How about LPs? Will funds be counted the same as grandma helping her daughter getting her hair salon off the ground? Pretty interesting questions…

Third, thanks to Joseph Steig for the tweet I retweeted/commented on.

Finally - Can I now say that I’ve been featured on CNN? Or As Seen On TV?

Update – HealyHoops on the Daily Show too!

This is getting a little out of hand, but my little (re)tweet was also on the Daily Show. The twitter/CNN bit starts around 9:55 into the show (I found the video navigation a bit difficult with Chrome.) I don’t think the particular sketch is all that funny, but it is amusing to have my tweet mentioned by Jon Stewart. And I don’t agree with Jon that Twitter is totally useless!