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Negotiating 101 for geeks 0

You’re a geek. But don’t feel bad. I’m a geek too. We geeks suck at some things. These days we do a little better with the opposite sex - geeks are more appreciated now that some of us are billionaires. But we’re still bad at some things.
As a geek entrepreneur, you can give away a […]

Finders Keepers, Founders Weepers 0

I discovered a brilliant blog entry by Paul Allen (the other one) on his experience with Liquidation preferences. It uses the excellent case of how the epinions founders got zero after a $30 million sale of their business and subsequent valueation of $300 million 18 months later.
Here’s a few extracts:
Today, the Epinions portion of Shopping.com […]