Often companies come to me with a request to design a compensation program, philosophy or market analysis hoping it will...
Why won’t consultants work for equity? (or will they?)
Consultants doing work for startups rarely seem willing to give a significant discount in exchange for equity. Equity should be...
What are the implications for employee shareholders in the event of a reverse stock split at a pre-IPO company? i.e. employee shares go from 500 shares to 200 shares.
orig. post on Quora Dan Walter’s Answer If the company does a reverse split (the number of outstanding shares is ...
Is it possible for the strike price of options to increase after it is granted in a private company? If so what is the cause?
orig. post on Quora Dan Walter’s Answer This is actually possible under two scenarios. One of these is very common....
Our Response to: The Warped Math of Executive Compensation
A February 3, 2014 article by Vince Molinaro discussed the pay package of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. In the...
Equity Compensation: Equity and Inequity
In the 1980’s, some tech execs in the Silicon Valley decided they could get more and give more through the...
QuickScore 2.0 – Compensation and Governance for 2014
On January 27, 2014 ISS released their updated QuickScore document. QuickScore is intended to help shareholders identify governance risk in...
★ Do software engineering companies typically give you to stock packages to vest together over 4 years (you get x amount in 2013 you have been doing really well lately and get x amount in 2014?
Orig question and answers on Quora Dan Walter’s Response Performance-based equity compensation is becoming more common. Usually these awards are...