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4 Ways To Transform Your Side Gig Into Your Main Show

YoungUpstarts

I had an objective to stay in that job until the real estate income was twice the value of my salary. There actually is something to that. I did not quit my pharmaceutical job right away. Now American Ventures is a successful multifamily and commercial real estate investment firm with a proven track record.

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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?

Startup Company Lawyer

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. Source: AllThingsD ]. -