Moonlighting for a startup could yield big returns

Magnum Memo

The latest trend in Silicon Valley is to maintain your primary job function in one corporation for a paycheck and to offer your work assistance for free to another company – in trade for stock. Where employees used to go home and spend the evening working on their yard or surfing the Net, now they do their night work. The first job pays the mortgage and supports the lifestyle. The second job holds the promise of high impact with generous returns. In a dynamic marketplace such as Silicon Valley, employers desperately need the best resources. But the “best”…