Over on LinkedIn, this question caught my eye: How much do founders get diluted through exit? This isn’t a new question.I regularly answered it for founders, employees, and even angel investors during my time at Brobeck in Silicon Valley. There are lots of people concerned about “dilution” without really knowing what it is. Dilution means…
Read MoreIn a recent conversation at a business breakfast roundtable at the Cornell Club in NYC, a question was asked about blogging, and I volunteered a brief description of my blogging activities. If you are blogging about multiple issues, you should consider separating your blog writing into categories to improve or reinforce your personal branding. Leading…
Read MoreThe WSJ Law Blog recently noted a suggestion by — that law firms reduce starting salaries for their lawyers in exchange for some sort of (read: unenforceable) promise to keep things together for some period of time. There are a range of problems that I see with this proposal, and here are some suggestions as…
Read MoreI have been dismayed by the assumptions inherent in the pay cap proposals, as well as the vast number of ways to apparently avoid the restrictions. But this opinion page article in the WSJ, by a current Fox news legal correspondent and former state court judge, is more way more opinion than article, more bald…
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