Entertaining Ways to Apply Executive Pay Rules

Executive compensation is always in the spotlight. The pay levels for the highest paid executive can truly be astounding to...

Compounding Our Pay Problems

The pay ratios between CEOs and average employees are once again in the news. This is partly because proxy season...

Startup Equity: Comparing Your “Currency” to a Competitor’s (Part 4 of an n part series)

Comparing base bay is relatively easy, equity not so much. A dollar is a dollar. And, if a dollar isn’t...

Startup Equity: Why are VCs Getting so Stingy with Equity? (Part 3 of an n part series)

Does this familiar? You had a great idea and turned it into a company. Somehow you got to the point...

Startup Equity: 409A vs Investor Value (part 2 of an n part series)

We have all seen the headlines, “XYZ receives $100M in funding at a $3B valuation.” We seldom see the “other”...

Broadway Acts on Sharing Success

You build it. You buy it. This may become the new mantra on Broadway. The original cast of Hamilton was...

Applying Pixar’s “22 Rules of Storytelling” to Pay

What do ‘Up’, ‘Cars’, ‘Inside Out’, ‘Monsters, Inc’, ‘Ratatouille’, ‘Toy Story 3’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Toy Story’ and ‘WALL-E’...