Entrepreneur Janice Schwartz hopes to develop their start-up companies by creating a technical advisory board and compensation to members at a discount stock company. Schwartz considers the six candidates who can help her online company formation in different forms: as potential customers, the media, Maven, a venture capitalist and technical consultant. The case offers ways to compensate the advisory board, and raises the question of whether there are new rules in the new economy, the creation of professional networks, and when the supply of capital is corruption and wrong doing. "Hide
by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Kim Slack Source: Harvard Business School 7 pages. Publication Date: October 20, 2000. Prod. #: 301050-PDF-ENG