If employees aren't kept happy, they can get poached by other players.
"One of the reasons they get poached so much is they are easy to transport.
It's reckoned that 35,000 elephants get poached every year for their ivory and 1,000 rhinos for their horns.
I hope he doesn't get poached, and I'm pretty sure he will be committing himself to us pretty soon".
I mean they'll get poached right away," said Dr Daniel Stiles, a consultant on the illegal wildlife trade for the UN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and various NGOs.
With the prevalence of fierce bidding wars for apartments in Manhattan, homes that get poached within a day of the open house, and interest rates that keep inching up, a buyer could become so frustrated by hunting for real estate in the 212 area code that he or she might just decide to give up.
So this year, next year, the year after, players will get poached".
Luckily since the startup is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, its employees are less likely to get poached by other tech companies than they would be in Silicon Valley.
More likely, however, is that successful crowdfunding managers raise capital from traditional limited partners themselves or get poached by established VC funds with their famous brands, rich fee structures, and steady streams of committed capital.
As such, the service allows users to keep tabs on "persons of interest", be they startup founders, executives, to find out when they resign, get poached, or are acqui-hired.
