Firms like the Gerson Lehrman Group and Guidepoint Global employ consultants that match money managers with industry experts.
To bolster his knowledge, Mr. Martoma tapped into expert-network firms, which employ consultants who match money managers with industry specialists, including public company employees.
One such approach is under way in Orange County, Calif., which this year created a retirement plan for new employees in which the county offers to match money workers put into individual accounts.
Mr. Ezell, who helped coordinate Dell's move into software and peripherals, is trying to match money from former Dell workers with start-up companies, as the head of a venture capital firm, Techxas Ventures.
Better yet (for AOL), your employer would have captured any rise in the value of your 401k investments in 2013 from that "match" money that otherwise would have benefitted you.
And one where the console's maker is now offering to help pay for the costs of this R&D, for last week Ouya launched its Free the Games Fund, with $1m available in chunks of between $50k and $250k to match money that developers raise on Kickstarter for their Ouya projects.
