"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Read our Newsletters and Q & A’s:
  1. NL 1: “Forming or Joining a Start-Up? – 16 Questions that Need to Be Answered”
  2. NL 2: “Private Equity Buying Your Employer? Resist These 11 Employment Negotiation Tactics”
  3. NL 3: Carried Interest – Key Words & Phrases
  4. NL 4: Negotiating Employment with a “Private Equity” Firm – 7 Surprises to Expect
  5. NL 5: Offered a Position and Shares in a Start-Up? – 10 Traps in the Legal Papers, and Your Ways Out
  6. NL 6: Robbery by Repurchase Rights – A Private Equity Story
  7. NL 7: “Umbrella Negotiating” – Best Response to Private Equity “Hurricane Tactics”
  1. QA 1: “How does an offer of ‘equity’ from an employer work?”
  2. QA 2: “How to request ‘ownership interests’ from Private Equity employers.”
  3. QA 3: Carried Interest – Key Words & Phrases


“If you live your life the right way,
your later years will not be a winter,
but rather a harvest.”

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