Tl;dr: A beautiful startup offer letter you can use for inspiration when making offers to your startup staff If you as a founder are a little clueless about how shares and options work, trust me, your staff are even more clueless. So clueless (for the most part in many countries) that many don’t even see the value in owning stock in …
How does European startup employee ownership (ESOP) compare to the US
As usual, the US is a leader in pretty much all things startup and startup employee ownership is no different. As an employee of a startup, one would think that their shareholding (ESOP) would be the most critical thing they would care about. Let’s face it, it’s how they get rich too, right? Well… actually no. Share ownership is something …
ESOP Plan Excel Template and Step by Step Guide to Retain and Attract Top Staff
You need an ESOP plan, or employee stock ownership plan. There just has never been one available. So I built it. It’s taken me a year to ship it as it was really hard to make something simple! Let me break this down for you. How do your staff get rich? Owning a stake in your startup, right? How do …
Quarterly vesting calculation for staff incentive ESOP plans
You may have read that a vesting option for your staff is quarterly vesting? Do you know how to calculate it though? Yeah, I thought so. Neither did I. Now, quarterly vesting is not my preferred method, but it is one of the main variables at hand when structuring your ESOP. But you’ve decided you don’t want to do monthly …
ESOP Terms Cheat sheet
Want to know all the ESOP terms? Here’s a nice cheat sheet for you. In my Udemy course called “The best guide to startup Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)“ (Check it out by following the link at get a $5 discount) I was asked for a cheat sheet of all the key terms so students could more easily understand them. …
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