Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. When I was CEO of my first company (where I admittedly F’d up everything before I figured it all out) we initially calculated for people how much there options were going to be worth some day.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Parker, for example, often sealed his agreements with a handshake rather than on paper. Consult your lawyer for details.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 31, 2010

– If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options. Companies are required to price their employee stock options close to the “market valuation&#.

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

When I was General Counsel at a tech company during the 1999 bubble times, I kept the company’s Cap Table. Note how the new CTO Praveena implicitly negotiated to get her 15% founders shares after creation of the stock option pool. Cap Tables can be very complex depending on the company’s financing history.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Typical first-time SV entrepreneurs are not millionaires, so let’s say you have 100k in the bank (maybe you’ve made some money from stock options). Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. The original plan was to finish my master’s degree, do a PhD at Berkeley, and become a scientist.

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