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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Advertising. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants. Personal Finance. Leadership.

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – [link].

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Personalization should touch on each.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For example, it still heavily relies on print advertising (bridal magazines) and brides were limited to only shopping in brick and mortar stores to find their wedding attire. I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Were not going to have any form of advertising, but I am considering trying to offer a scholarship program to worthy entrepreneurs, just as we did for the Web 2.0

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