It’s hard to read legalese and figure out the stack of paperwork you receive when starting a new tech job. We’re here to help.  Below we provide a list of the paperwork relating to your equity compensation that you should always have in your personal records. 1. The company’s equity incentive plan The company’s equity […]

Founders and management should familiarize themselves with 409A valuations early in the company’s life. Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code will come into play once you start to think about hiring. We’re here to help and we’ve brought in the big guns. We’ve enlisted friend of EquityZen and business valuation guru Bo Brustkern to […]

So you work for a startup that has raised gobs of VC money and is about to be sold for many millions of dollars. Great, right? Not exactly. If the liquidation preference overhang looms, you may walk away with nothing. The liquidation preference overhang is kind of like musical chairs when a company gets sold, […]