Finance Management Silicon Valley Vesting 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful. A-round venture capital firms will almost certainly make it a requirement that they get a board seat upon financing. If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably. But it’s quite rare.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Stock options are issued to employees usually through an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) and include what is called a “vesting period.” The vesting period, often three or four years, frees up a percentage of the options for the employee to purchase the longer they stay at the company. Restricted stock: .
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www.mattbartus.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” Blog blog archive. Quora Answers.
Up and Running
MAY 3, 2012
Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. We should be teaching them more about entrepreneurship including a strong emphasis on cash-flow management and financial literacy. We need a much more balanced narrative.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Some founders have three-year vesting.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. Tuesday, February 26, 2008.
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