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Participate in the 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey

Furqan Nazeeri put up a post titled 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens.  It in he points to a compensation study produced by J. Robert Scott, Ernst & Young, and WilmerHale in collaboration with Dr. Noam Wasserman, Professor at the Harvard Business School. CompStudy covers more than 25,000 executives at 5,000 companies and is the […]

Furqan Nazeeri put up a post titled 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens.  It in he points to a compensation study produced by J. Robert Scott, Ernst & Young, and WilmerHale in collaboration with Dr. Noam Wasserman, Professor at the Harvard Business School. CompStudy covers more than 25,000 executives at 5,000 companies and is the largest study of its kind.

If you are a CEO or CFO of a startup in the US, China, India, Israel, or the UK in the technology or life science industry, consider taking the survey.   The 2008 results are up on Furqan’s site.

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