Employee stock options are often dubbed ESOs and they can be a useful tool for startups and other companies. Employers can use them to attract top executive talent when they’re unable to offer top salaries. The offer of employee stock options isn’t…
Similar to stocks, stock options can work in or out of your favor. Stock options are a vehicle that gives someone the right to buy or sell shares of a particular stock at a specified price, for a finite period.…
The purpose of a 409A valuation is to determine the value of the shares that your privately held company can offer to your employees in the form of stock options on a tax-free basis. It’s imperative to be diligent in…
Your hard-working employees bring a lot of value to your company. While you need top-quality talent to get your company up and running profitably, your bottom line may not allow you to pay top dollar for top talent. What you…
As with most new rules and laws, 409A plans were established in response to a significant public scandal—the Enron scandal. As talk of bankruptcy was looming, many Enron executives arranged to accelerate the payments under the company’s deferred compensation plan…
Who is Blue Collective? Blue Collective is an investment firm founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York. The firm specializes in multi-strategy investment and has grown to $100M assets under management with 3 partners and 2 dogs. JJ Kasper, the Co-Founder & Partner, recently…
Private capital fundraising had a bombshell year in 2019. An incredible $888 billion was raised across 1,064 venture capital, private equity and other funds accounting for the most private capital ever raised on an annual basis, according to a new…
Many EquityEffect clients have seen immense changes to their operations and strategic visions due to the COVID-19 global crisis. Small businesses, in particular, have experienced profound impacts of supply, demand, distribution, personnel, regulatory, and macroeconomic disruptions over the past month.…
The Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit institution devoted to education in entrepreneurship. In 2012, the foundation published a white paper “We Have Met the Enemy...and He is Us”. Upon analyzing two decades of investment performance across 96 VC funds, the…
It’s ironic: for an industry that regularly invests in the bleeding edge of modern technology, venture capital firms find themselves lacking the tools necessary to analyze their own portfolios. Portfolio analytics—the accurate collection and streamlined interpretation of metrics at the…
