Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups

EquityBee, a stock option marketplace startup, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Group 11 led the financing, which also includ... (2021)

Ledgy makes your equity plans scalable, compliant in all countries, integrates with your existing systems and comes with enterprise-ready security ... (2021)

Create a fundraising-ready startup. Everything from incorporation, banking, and equity management tools in a single place. (2021)

Medium, Avesh Singh 2017: "Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee. Should you early-exercise your stock options? ... (2017)

One of the things that struck me most during our recent pieces on startup employee option plans is how things that impact the value of those option... (2016)

Founder vesting is when founders agree that their founder’s stock will vest over some period of time, normally four years. “Many times we will c... (2018)

AVC, Fred Wilson blog, 2017: “And that would be the end of equity compensation in startups as we know it. If this provision becomes law, startu... (2017)

Let’s say you are the founder and CEO of a startup and you have now been at it for four years. The company is doing great, you’ve raised several ro... (2018)

Stock option plans are an extremely popular method of attracting, motivating, and retaining employees, especially when the company is unable to pay... (2019)

Attorney Mary Russell counsels individuals on startup equity, including founders  on their personal interests and executives  and key ... (2019)

From ISOs to NSOs to equity grants -- everything you should know about stock options and equity compensation. (2019)

An easy tool to ballpark the value of startup options. what are your options worth? a simple calculator... (2019)

Research when to sell shares in a privately held company, and the results, may have you laughing — not because they’re funny but they’re because th... (2019)

Skillshare CEO Matt Cooper walks through how many options to grant employees, communicating the value of the grants, and how employees can assess o... (2019)

When startups grant stock options – which are important for attracting talent – how do they determine the value of common shares? For a privately-h... (2020)

There’s a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt when it comes to stock options, and I’d like to try and clear some of that up today. As an engineer, y... (2020)

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC's have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employ... (2019)

The increasing use of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) has led to a good deal of confusion about their use and how similar they are to stock options. (2014)