Bacon gives a solidly appealing performance, becoming increasingly vivacious and warm as Addie deems everyone in the bar to be her new friends, and determines, with intoxicated zeal, to make a play for the man of her dreams.

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Ms. Edson, now a middle-school teacher in Atlanta, said she never was gunning specifically for her play to make it to Broadway, and she fondly recalled an early staging in a tiny New York theater.

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But most important is that vesting might be the only way to make each member of the team accountable for his or her work and the role in the company they play, and this does not only apply to founders but advisors and consultants who you may give equity to when you are bootstrapping.

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