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8 Keys To Maximizing Your New Venture Stock Net Worth

Startup Professionals Musings

Spread stock issuance over an earning period. This is the purpose of a vesting schedule, which issues allocated stock over time. Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over four years, starting with the first 25 percent of shares vesting only after an owner has remained active for at least 12 months (one year cliff ).

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How To Prevent Your Founder’s Shares From Vaporizing

Startup Professionals Musings

Spread stock issuance over an earning period. This is the purpose of a vesting schedule, which issues allocated stock over time. Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over four years, starting with the first 25 percent of shares vesting only after an owner has remained active for at least 12 months (one year cliff ).

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8 Ways To Nurture New Venture Stock Into A Goldmine

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, in my years since as a small business advisor, I have seen too many founders squander this asset through a lack of understanding of some basic legal and operational issues, or by handing out nominally “free” stock to the wrong people at the wrong time. Always specify a vesting period for new partners.

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8 Ways To Maximize The Value Of Your Startup Stock

Startup Professionals Musings

Spread stock issuance over an earning period. This is the purpose of a vesting schedule, which issues allocated stock over time. Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over four years, starting with the first 25 percent of shares vesting only after an owner has remained active for at least 12 months (one year cliff ).

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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

Typically, employers that offer employees equity compensation will do so in the form of common stock, preferred stock, or stock options. Stock options are issued to employees usually through an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) and include what is called a “vesting period.” Restricted stock: .

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

Stock options for all employees of startups served several purposes: Because startups didn’t have much cash and couldn’t compete with large companies in salary offers, stock options dangled in front of a potential employee were like offering a lottery ticket in exchange for a lower salary. Not everyone got the same amount of stock.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

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.” People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. What are the potential issues? Categories.

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