Describes the challenges faced by three young founders of high-tech startup in Silicon Valley, including the hiring of an experienced CEO and is in talks with a potential investor VC. Focused on incentives and compensation aspects of negotiating with competitors (eg, what percentage of capital appropriate to offer) and venture capitalists (eg, option-vesting issues). "Hide
by Brian J. Hall, Carleen Madigan, Noam Wasserman Source: Harvard Business School 6 pages. Publication Date: December 11, 2000. Prod. #: 801324-PDF-ENG
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