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Startup Equity 101
Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...
If you file something called an 83(b) election within 30 days of the time of your exercise, you are basically sending a letter (recently made possible digitally) letting the IRS know that you’d like to prepay taxes on your shares. Exercising stock options is risky for many reasons we mentioned earlier, but it’s worth emphasizing: most startups fail and, given you already work at the company, you already have concentrated employment risk. Like investments (public and private), philanthropy, estate planning, borrowing, how to interview an advisor before you hire them, personal finance specifically for startup founders, and others.
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