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Who gets diluted by the employee incentive pool? Typically, once an entrepreneur and prospective investor decide they want to make a deal, they negotiate a valuation and work out a variety of other key terms for the investment. One of those terms is usually...

Job seekers often feel sensitive about their employment records for various reasons. There can be an attitude that the work background is inadequate or inferior. It could feel like a barrier to getting the kind of job the individual wants....

The three most critical issues facing Illinois today are job erosion, education and network infrastructure. These issues aren't unique to Illinois, James Carlini observed on last week's Comcast 'Newsmakers' program on the CNN channel. ...

Competing and winning federal research and development (R&D) awards is a high-contact sport. Researching the agencies, laboratories, systems and business processes can be overwhelming. I have learned a few things along the way that may be valuable to companies considering federal funding to support their innovative...

It's a new twist on an age-old question: What came first, the chicken or the fertilized egg? So far as flu vaccine production is concerned, the answer is definitely the egg. Millions of contaminant-free, fertilized eggs are needed each year to produce vaccines against predicted strains...

The mission of the Obama government to tackle the U.S. health care system is no easy project. There are so many components that need fixing. Do you fix the increasingly high cost of health care, expand the coverage to a universal system or try to...

Is your profile complete on LinkedIn? How many friends do you have on Facebook? Did you update your “What are you working on”at both sites? If not, you may be missing the “groundswell” a term coined by Forrester researchers Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. In...

Gov. Jim Doyle recently signed the 2009 Wisconsin Act 2 into law. The legislation includes several provisions that significantly impact Wisconsin taxpayers. A significant change is how the law defines tangible personal property, which was intended to prospectively "reverse" the decision in Wisconsin Department of Revenue...

This recession has spared no group of workers when it comes to losing jobs, with white-collar workers who seemed nearly immune to past economic downturns standing in unemployment lines with their blue-collar counterparts. Still, there's a clear “education gap” in the national jobless statistics - and...