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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

If you don’t have big dreams for your company and are happy running it day to day (you’re not thinking about your IPO or acquisition in five years), then offering equity in the business is not fair to employees. And is willing to share company finances, future, etc.”. Don’t save starting costs by giving the business away.”.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. Auto Repair, Parts & Services.

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9/11?s 10th

OnlyOnce

meltdown was still in process, we were in the middle of negotiating a life-saving financing and acquisition of Veripost with Eric Kirby and George. I was fortunate not to lose anyone close in the attacks, but my friend Morten lost over a dozen close friends who were all traders from his town in New Jersey.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – May 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be the acquisition of mature Israeli high tech companies by multinationals. Avaya, EMC and VMWare are following the footsteps of Facebook, eBay, Cisco and HP with Israeli acquisitions that become R&D centers. The bank is offering to finance mid-sized and large projects of up to 50 MW.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. Are you doing an acquisition?