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To: TimF who wrote (92705)	10/31/2008 2:41:47 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541712

>>The guaranteed salary, bonuses, and golden parachutes are part of how you pay them more. The point isn't that you have to give them a salary as high as they would otherwise earn or think they would earn, but that you would have to pay them a risk adjusted net total compensation that was as large or larger.<< Tim - But considering that they face more risk when starting their own companies, and not less, that shouldn't be a factor that drives their compensation packages up. It should be the opposite. They can hardly take a bargaining position that says, "Well, I could start my own company and make less, with less certainty that I'll make it, so you need to pony up." - Allen