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Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs
Fred Wilson – Nov 8, 2010
For the past six weeks, we've been talking about employee equity on MBA Mondays. We've covered the basics, some specifics, and we've discussed the main form of employee equity which are stock options. Today we are going to talk about [...] Read more
Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs
Fred Wilson – Nov 8, 2010
For the past six weeks, we've been talking about employee equity on MBA Mondays. We've covered the basics, some specifics, and we've discussed the main form of employee equity which are stock options. Today we are going to talk about [...] Read more
Employee Equity: The Option Strike Price
Fred Wilson – Nov 1, 2010
A few weeks back we talked about stock options in some detail. I explained that the strike price of an option is the price per share you will pay when you exercise the option and buy the underlying common stock. [...] Read more
Employee Equity: Options
Fred Wilson – Oct 18, 2010
A stock option is a security which gives the holder the right to purchase stock (usually common stock) at a set price (called the strike price) for a fixed period of time. Stock options are the most common form of [...] Read more
Employee Equity: Options
Fred Wilson – Oct 18, 2010
A stock option is a security which gives the holder the right to purchase stock (usually common stock) at a set price (called the strike price) for a fixed period of time. Stock options are the most common form of [...] Read more
Employee Equity: Appreciation
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2010
This is the third post in an MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity. Last week I talked about Dilution. This week I am going to talk about the antidote to Dilution which is Appreciation, specifically stock price appreciation. When you [...] Read more
Employee Equity: Dilution
Fred Wilson – Oct 4, 2010
Last week I kicked off my MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity. Today I am going to talk about one of the most important things you need to understand about employee equity; it is likely to be diluted over time. [...] Read more
Employee Equity
Fred Wilson – Sep 27, 2010
One of the topics I get asked about most on MBA Mondays is "options." But options are only one form of employee equity. I am going to do a series of posts on this topic over the next month of [...] Read more
Outsourcing vs Offshoring
Fred Wilson – Sep 20, 2010
A lot of the discussion about last week’s MBA Mondays post on Outsourcing was about the differences between outsourcing locally and outsourcing outside your home country. A popular term for the latter approach is offshoring. The advent of modern electronic [...] Read more