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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. How complex is the capitalization table?

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. How complex is the capitalization table?

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Understanding Stock Options

YoungUpstarts

by Evan Stephens, tax manager at Sensiba San Filippo. In today’s start-up culture, it’s common for companies to offer employees the opportunity to own stock in the business. While most folks know the basic benefits of receiving stock, many employees are taken off guard by the tax implications that follow.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Here’s why.

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Startup Stock Options Are Not Reliable Compensation

Startup Professionals Musings

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% compensation entrepreneur startup stock options business' Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Should You Negotiate Ownership Options In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Thus, options don’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% That means you will get none of these until after you work for one year, and the total only if you stay for four years.

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How Many Startup Stock Options are Enough?

Startup Professionals Musings

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% That means you will get none of these until after you work for one year, and the total only if you stay for four years.