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option pool

Shares set aside at a private company for possible issuance to employees at a later date.

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  1. A VC: Valuation and Option Pool
    Nov 6, 2009 ... One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, ...
     
  2. Option Pool Definition | Investopedia
    Shares of stock reserved for employees of a private company. The option pool is a way of attracting talented employees to a startup company - if the employees ...
     
  3. What is a Stock Option Pool? | Startup Lawyer
    Sep 28, 2009 ... An option pool is an amount of a startup's common stock reserved for future issuances to employees, directors, advisors, and consultants.
     
  4. The Option Pool Shuffle - Venture Hacks
    Apr 10, 2007 ... Slipping the option pool in the pre-money lowers your effective valuation to $6M. The actual value of the company you have built is $6M, not ...
     
  5. Option Pool - Equity Simulator
    The Option Pool is used primarily for two, highly intertwined, purposes. The first is to have a way to pay people with a currency other than cash when a venture is ...
     
  6. VCs and option pools: Now you're swimming in the deep end ...
    Sep 13, 2010 ... Will the VC firms require an option pool? And ... Accordingly, absent an employee option pool, the VC would own 25 percent of your company ...
     
  7. Option Pool Creation | LearnVC.com
    Aug 17, 2008 ... One of the more subtle points of valuation is option pool creation. The first method is an option pool created from the pre-money side, but ...
     
  8. What is option pool? definition and meaning
    Definition of option pool: Shares set aside at a private company for possible issuance to employees at a later date.