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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

Of course, not every equity compensation story is a David Choe Story. If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. In this article, I’m going to examine: What equity compensation is. Different types of equity compensation.

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Navigating Seasonality While Keeping Cashflow Healthy

YoungUpstarts

To even out cash flow, he recently decided to stage some summer home expos on the New Jersey shore, aimed at vacation home owners. The new shows will help me with cash flow in the summer when I don’t usually have much,” says Joe. For Lanzi’s home improvement expos, winter and spring are peak seasons, while summer is sleepy.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

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. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. That scares me. On Dan’s Former Startup.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. And then a year out of school, I was getting married and actually in New Jersey, but my family was visiting me. You’ve got to build equity value." So, I ended up after business school, working as an analyst at a very small hedge fund. We were based in Boston.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – May 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions Avaya, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, recently announced its purchase of RADVISION for $230m. The China Development Bank has offered to finance Israeli solar energy projects, the first time that a foreign bank has expressed an interest in the sector.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Believe it or not, the state of New Jersey has been experimenting with a free beer giveaway to encourage Covid vaccinations. It is important to note that using the one-day gains of “hot IPOs” to either attract new customers or wildly please the ones you already have is not a new concept.

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