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What exactly is “vesting”?
Can someone explain in simple terms based on a simple example what exactly is "vesting"?
I've read the Wikipedia, Investopedia, and etc. descriptions but I'm not really sure I get it.
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Prenuptial separation agreement for cofounders
My apologies if this question has been asked before. I tried to find the answer reviewing other questions and still don't have the answer so here is the question(s):
We are now setting up the ...
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Should I quit the company I founded?
I will try to make this short. About nine months ago my ex boss offered to invest in a company for me. Our relationship even when it was not romantic was deeply emotional. I care a lot about him as a ...
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How do you actually setup a vesting agreement for co-founders w/out breaking the budget?
I'm based in Hong Kong. I've read through a lot of information about share vesting for co-founders and realized that is definitely the solution I want. I'm now trying to figure out how to actually go ...
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What to do with equity when leaving a startup you co-founded?
I have already read many of the posts here about this topic and I got very good insights already but I was hoping to get some tailored advice for my situation.
I have been working two years in a ...
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Looking to hire good freelancers - looking for original ways for paying them?
I am building a small startup.
We haven't raised any money yet, and we're in the stage where we need the help of some very talented free lancers (mostly graphic designers).
The prices they are asking ...
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Left my startup pre-launch. What percent equity is fair?
6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer ...
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When Co-founder quits, what happens to the vested equity?
I'm a co-founder of a startup, and I've been working on it for almost 3 years. The vesting term is 1-year cliff and 1/48 per month. So now I have vested 15%, and 5% not yet vested.
I need to quit the ...
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Is there a tax liability for reverse vesting founder stock/units?
A friend and I formed an Oregon LLC in 2008 for an online business. Now we're up and running and both working on it full-time. Now we've both moved to Texas and want to re-form as a Texas company ...
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Valueless stock options on exit
A friend of mine is at a startup, and the startup is having a big exit. It is being bought by a large company. Everything sounds great, except... he has only unvested stock options and under the ...
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If someone is investing money as terms of a partnership is that money to be repaid as a loan?
My brother had an idea for a business and asked me to be his partner. His idea was for me to have 20% ownership and he has 80%. He is going to fund the business (at most $20,000) and believes that I ...
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I was hired onto a start up and was given 10,000 phantom shares with no vesting period. Can I sell those at any point?
I was hired onto a startup that is backed by a very very wealthy family. I was given 10,000 phantom shares in two companies with no vesting period. One is generating modest revenue the other is ...
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Vested stock options on acquisition
I was employed with a startup in Singapore for 15 months and vested 15K options over these months. Now the company is being acquired by a US company though the Singapore company will stay a subsidiary ...
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Questions around vesting vis-a-vis dilution, leaving a company and being fired from a company
I am just curious about vesting as against 3 things - Dilution, a Co-founder leaving, a co-founder getting fired
Please assume a 2-man team with the equity split among the founder & CEO (A) and ...
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how to proceed with negotiations with contractor/early employee [duplicate]
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I am one of three cofounders at an early stage startup. We have been working with an outsourced ...
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Would Skype's stock buyback plan be as evil if they paid fair market value?
Skype's buying back of stock options at the exercise price is pretty evil, no doubt. But is it equally uncommon for a company to put in conditions allowing them to buy back vested stock at fair ...
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How to handle a leaving employee's shares
I have a question about what are the best exit options for employees that own shares in a company and want to leave after some time.
For example, let's say at the start of a company the first ...
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Vesting restricted stock and the 83(b) Election
Is it possible to have a Section 83(b) Election when the only risk of forfeiture of the restricted stock is for unvested shares and there are no repurchase rights for vested shares (ie all vested ...
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What is adequate compensation for consultants at an early stage (pre-funding) start-up?
I am currently offering people who work on our start-up 0.05% option to purchase vested on the 3 month to 9 month schedule. Have you had this situation before? What is fair?
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Can vesting schedule apply to non-founding officers?
Can a vesting schedule be applied to a non-founding member of a corporation (eg. an officer, employee, etc)?
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Considerations such as vesting for Founder Agreement
I'm planning to file a Delaware LLC for a partnership where I'm the majority owner of our self-funded startup.
One key goal for me is to incorporate a vesting option among owners where equity is a ...
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How does reverse-vesting work?
How does reverse-vesting work? I understand the company has the right to "buy back" shares if the employee leaves early, but how exactly does that work? What price do they pay per share?
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How should we allocate shares given staggered involvement?
I have an idea I'd like to implement. I've done a bit of work to get together a proof of concept and it works pretty well. I think the potential is great, so much so that I've become a bit obsessed ...
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Where to put vesting schedule for founders?
For a new corporation, should the vesting schedule and related conditions be written in the Articles of Incorporation, Shareholders Agreement or as a separate document?
Thanks for any advice.
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Vested Stake in an L.L.C
I am working on a web startup and I was wondering how vested stake works in the context of an L.L.C.
The founder team would like to add a founding member to the L.L.C. with the only compensation ...
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Received ISO grant date a year after vesting date (start date) and therefore higher strike price than was at start date
I'll try to make this simple:
I started at my startup over a year ago, apx 6 mos before we raised a second round of funding (helping with this was a big part of my hire), in my offer letter I was ...
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LLC with vesting shares possible?
I'm currently trying to decide if my startup should be an LLC or a Corp. (would probably make the S election for either case). This will be formed in Massachusettes, USA.
From what I've been reading ...
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Vesting Schedule for an initial “100% CTO”
Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a better ...
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Event of a sale prior to vesting schedule completion
Starting to work with our legal team and its time to expand the team. A few questions on the vesting schedule.
Employee 1: CFO position
I am bringing in a CFO from a financial background with other ...
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Setting a stock vesting schedule retroactively
So here's the the quick summary:
Three co-founders with shares equally divided. Started working on it about a year ago, got incorporated about 4 months ago. Now one of the co-founders wants to leave.
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How do I add a new business partner?
We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know ...
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Clawback vs. vesting
What is the difference between clawback and founder vesting? It seems that the term "clawback" was used in connection with the Zynga and Skype cases Equity Clawback - how to avoid Zynga situation
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Vesting for large group of part-time cofounders
I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on and ...
