...
- 2013.06.23 - Michael O'Church - Here’s the proper way to evaluate a startup’s equity offerings
- 2014.02.12 - StockOptionCounsel.com - JOINING AN EARLY STAGE STARTUP? NEGOTIATE YOUR EQUITY AND SALARY WITH STOCK OPTION COUNSEL TIPS
- 2014.01.16 - WealthFront - The 14 Crucial Questions About Stock Options
- 2014.03.10 - TechColumbus.org - Startups, Stock Options, and IRS Section 409A: Fair Market Value
- 2014.04.02 - Why Startups Don't Like To Tell Employees How Many Shares There Really Are In The Company
- 2014.04.18 - Sam Altman (YCombinator) - Employee Equity
- 2014.07.19 - StockOptionCounsel.com - CAN THE COMPANY TAKE BACK MY VESTED SHARES?
- 2014.11.11 - Startup School - Lecture 15 - How to Manage (Ben Horowitz)
- - At 6:10 Ben suggests a VP would have 1.5%, whereas a Director (a position underneath VP) would have 0.4%
- At 6:40 Ben suggests engineers typically get around 0.1% - 0.2%.
- At 15:55 he talks about one of Sam Altman's blog posts about the difficulty employees can face when exercising shares after being fired.
- 17:20 - He gives an in-depth explanation of stock option strike period history.
- 22:48 - "SV companies dilute at 6-8% per year when they are private for employee comp"
- 24:00 - He makes the really good point that if you switch to giving employees 10-year options, they'll have an incentive to hop jobs every year, hoping to eventually work for one that hits the jackpot.
- - At 6:10 Ben suggests a VP would have 1.5%, whereas a Director (a position underneath VP) would have 0.4%
- 2017.06 - DanLuu.com - Options vs. cash