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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Member since 01/2005. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Blog powered by TypePad.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. In 2011, 65% of the company was sold to a group of private equity firms for approximately $2.25

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Apart from his accomplished business career, Mr.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons.

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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

Both Sides of the Table

Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.