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What Equity Compensation Means for Startup Employees

You’ve received an offer to work at a startup -- congratulations! Now, how do you go about evaluating your equity...

Same-Day Exercise: A Smart Alternative to Non-Recourse Loans for Exercising Stock Options

With IPO volume down 14% year over year, early employees are increasingly considering options for selling their shares...

The 7 Equity Documents You Should Always Have on File

It can be difficult to read the legal language in the documents you get when starting a new job at a startup. Yet these...

The Pros and Cons of Selling Pre-IPO Stock

The Pros and Cons of Selling Pre-IPO Stock Understanding the secondary markets to buy and sell private market stock may...

The Importance of Knowing the Value of Your Private Company Shares as a Startup Employee

As a startup employee, you are an integral part of a company that is on the cutting edge of innovation and growth. You...

Shareholder's Playbook: What to Know About Selling Your Shares

You are working at the pre-IPO company of your dreams….but you need some immediate liquidity. You’ve heard of platforms...

What is an Option Agreement?

If you work at a startup, you’ve probably received an Option Agreement. It lays out what you can and can’t do with your...

The Answers to Your Startup Equity Questions

For employee shareholders, exercising options or selling shares is something many consider, especially when there is a...

How to Exercise Stock Options Without Cash: A Smoother Path to Liquidity

When private company employees talk about selling their stock options, they’re not actually talking about selling their...