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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Advisor. ); STARTUP. 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. Email address: Home.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

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“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. While private equity has a history in the U.S.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. But I didn’t start immediately; I didn’t know optics well, and I assumed that if there was to be a technical solution it would come from somebody who did.