Entrepreneurial Options

Executives and entrepreneurs are faced with a broad range of options, which vary significantly in risk, effort and reward. These include:

• A personally financed start-up product, service or consulting company
• Creating a venture capital or privately financed company or start-up business
• Purchasing an existing business through a combination of personal, venture or traditional financing
• Joining a first or second phase venture with one or two rounds of existing financing in place
• Leading or participating in a turn around, LBO, or acquisition
• Joining a smaller company in an equity position to spearhead "next level" growth, sale, or IPO
• Joining a larger company with plans to spin-out and take public or sell smaller business units
• Negotiating stock grants and options to enhance traditional employment

Entrepreneurial Risks and Rewards

All of these options and almost infinite variations and combinations offer a range of risks from "bet your house and first born" to relatively low and easily manageable. The rewards, both financial and personal, can range up to and sometimes even beyond realistic expectations.

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