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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

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If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Stock vests for 4 years. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. It was 1999.

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How Private Equity Funds Are and Should Be Using Social Media

David Teten

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions. And I understand that approach.

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Traditional VCs and First-time Entrepreneurs Are not Aligned

Diego Basch

In the words of Fred Wilson: VCs are professional money managers. Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups. I’ll try to explain why. A VC fund typically has a 10-year investment horizon. A strong return is 3x cash on cash.