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What's An Appropriate Equity Package For A Founding Board Member?

From Ask The VC: What's An Appropriate Equity Package For A Founding Board Member?

The answer in the post is 0.25% to 1%, which compares pretty well to numbers I've seen elsewhere.

Why Some Organizations Perform Poorly

Each month, we publish a new chapter in Mark Paul's Entrepreneur's Survival Guide.  This month, we've reached the last chapter: "Reasons Why some Organizations Perform Poorly".  Download and read this chapter now at the OregonStartups.com website.

How to Manage Projects for Optimal Success

Each month we feature a new chapter from Mark Paul's book Entreprenreneur's Survival Guide.  This month: learn how to keep product development costs down and increase the odds of success for any project.  Read it now.

The Changing Face of U.S. Innovation

From the Harvard Business Review:

The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described.

What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S. working population, they represent 25 percent of the U.S. science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the National Academy of Sciences, patent citation counts, and so on.  Read more...

The Creative Economy

A Business Week article argues that the "Knowledge Economy" is yesterday's news, and the real high-value opportunity for the U.S. is the "Creative Economy", stressing the importance of innovation.