Leaving a Start-Up Company: What to Do With Your Stock Options?

The decision to leave a start-up carries with it a host of considerations that differ significantly from the choice to depart from an established public company.  Specifically, if you are considering leaving your start-up company, there are important issues surrounding your stock option plan that should be addressed.  It is easy to focus solely on … Continued

Unicorns, Thoroughbreds and Work Horses

There are now 142 start-ups with private valuations of more than $1 billion according to CB Insights. Most of these, so called, “unicorns” achieved these valuations in 2014 and 2015 – with nearly half joining the herd in 2015. But more recently the weaker members of the herd have seen their mythical enchantment luster diminished … Continued