It turns out that venture capitalists and executive recruiters are not stupid, they just learned the wrong lessons from previous failures.

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Sony BMG, a joint venture of Chief Executive Sir Howard Stringer 's Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) with Bertelsmann, is now offering free music downloads as well as cash refunds to those who bought the music disc, as part of a proposed settlement of lawsuits, according to U.K. media reports.

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Some venture firms are making executive VCs an ongoing investment strategy.

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