Inception in a sentence as a noun

So, if you get your 100,000 share grant at $.01/sh, and you pay $.01 share, you pay no tax at inception.

It seems clear to me that the author meant "always" wrt the inception of G+, not the inception of search.

These days I play on and off exclusively through Fritz using their online service, of which I've been a member since inception.

As Shirky says, "had the Web been a strong and well-designed entity from its inception, it would have gone nowhere”--as Xanadu was and did.

Does anyone honestly believe the Germans aren't regularly trying to figure out ways to listen to American officials' communications?I find the NSA's domestic spying to be appalling... but this is the sort of thing everyone knew the NSA was responsible for since its inception.

* Third, while he decries his stance as calling something "stupid" as an arrogant position, this article itself comes across as arrogant -- in effect he's positioning himself near the beginning of these companies' inception and being in the position of being asked his opinion in a taste-maker fashion.

Inception definitions

noun

an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

See also: origin origination