Whether your investors are friends, family, angels or VCs, nobody wants to be kept in the dark.

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But is it really good for investors to be kept in the dark?

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Do you seriously propose the rest of population be kept in the dark?

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But shareholder decisions must be based on the facts, and too often investors are kept in the dark about the pay of senior executives.

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Having largely kept the Senate in the dark about these talks, it remains to be seen if the Obama administration will be willing to submit whatever they produce to the Senate for its advice and consent, or use the Bilateral Consultative Commission the new treaty establishes to circumvent legislators altogether.

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Or should he have kept it in the dark, where it could potentially be exploited by other hackers in secret?

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