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Investors & minor shareholders

by Steve Lange on September 12, 2008

Business owners face risks and compromises when they sell stock in their companies or accept outside investment. Tim Berry has post on this topic several times on his Up and Running and Planning Startups Stories blogs. Reading Tim’s blogs, and watching the Yahoo! vs. Carl Icahn brouhaha reminded me of the novel Crytomonicon by Neal [...]

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People used to say you couldn’t be too thin or too rich, and I think we know now that both points are sometimes wrong. Too thin isn’t my problem, so let that one go; but too rich is a problem for some startups. Not when too rich refers to your own money, perhaps, but with [...]

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I found the following story on several Internet sites. At New York’s Kennedy airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, and a calculator. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security [...]

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