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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

As we tell our customers, if you’re hiring us to transform your property, then you should trust us to take care of it forever.” To even out cash flow, he recently decided to stage some summer home expos on the New Jersey shore, aimed at vacation home owners. Taking advantage of football season’s downtime.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

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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. I think that in the world of sushi, there’s a role for Jiro, Nobu, and Benihana. You have to pick one. Everything we do.

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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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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. You obviously cannot trust them.”

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