Vesting Questions

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...

Founder Company Investors Vesting

asked Feb 12 '12 at 08:40

Jessica
41 points

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...

Acquisition Vesting

asked Feb 3 '12 at 14:01

Vikram Bodicherla
111 points

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...

Partner Employees Shares Vesting

asked Jan 24 '12 at 09:38

Jfaulkins
111 points

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...

Co-Founder Compensation Investors Vesting

asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:57

Ina
121 points

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)...

Equity Termination Angel Vesting Dilution

asked Nov 15 '11 at 00:23

Rokstr Dli
36 points

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...

Equity Vesting

asked Oct 18 '11 at 20:27

Mark Silberbauer
8 points

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...

Equity Stock Options Vesting

asked Oct 21 '11 at 12:11

Eric Littleton
107 points

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...

LLC Equity Founders Agreement Delaware Vesting

asked Sep 28 '11 at 05:35

Sheepish
6 points

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...

Payments Vesting

asked Aug 23 '11 at 14:46

Vondip
584 points

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.

Vesting

asked Aug 2 '11 at 19:13

Miyo
46 points

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...

Stock Options Vesting

asked Jun 27 '11 at 06:42

Sean
134 points

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...

LLC Tax Founders Vesting

asked Jun 21 '11 at 03:39

Sean
134 points

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...

Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 28 '11 at 16:49

Miguel Buckenmeyer
482 points

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...

LLC Legal Shares Vesting

asked Apr 29 '11 at 11:04

Asim Hussain
41 points