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Legal Issues Behind Running A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

It may be an employee contract, a contract between you and your client, a rental agreement or a bill of sale. You would need sound legal advice from an attorney to ensure that you avoid nasty covenants in the lease. With lack of practice, you can destroy your otherwise incredible reputation. Intellectual property.

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Negotiating a Job Offer from a Private Equity/VC Portfolio Company

David Teten

You’re investing your time, reputation, network, and probably also capital. Structuring and Negotiating Executive Compensation Packages: Addressing Pay, Severance, Restrictive Covenants, and More. Here’s How Startup Founders Should Offer Employee Equity. How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees.

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How to evaluate the great job offer you just won

David Teten

You’re investing your time, reputation, network, and probably also capital. Structuring and Negotiating Executive Compensation Packages: Addressing Pay, Severance, Restrictive Covenants, and More. Here’s How Startup Founders Should Offer Employee Equity. How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

If you join a fund, you’ll invest your financial capital, but far more importantly, your reputational capital. – Restrictive Covenants (nonsolicitation and noncompete restrictions). – Employee and investor noncompete/nonsolicitation. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.