“An entrepreneur,” LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman once said, “is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.” As a startup owner, you must embrace your inner MacGuyver. You need to do what you can with what you have to get to where you…
These four perks can truly delivers engagement and happiness and can attract and retain a first-rate team of startup employees.
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow startup employees to defer the tax owed on exercised stock options for up to seven years. The bill, H.R. 5719: Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act, would go a long way to support the startup ecosystem by making it easier for employees of private companies to hold on to valuable but illiquid stock.
Founders are often surprised to see how complex it is to enable their employees to obtain stock options. The first step is understanding the difference between the two widely different type of stock options: The Incentive Stock Option (ISO) and the Nonqualified Stock Option (NSO).