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How to slip the golden handcuffs.
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If you have worked for a tech startup, you have probably earned incentive stock options (ISOs) as part of your compensation. ISOs are notoriously difficult to understand, let alone to strategize. In most cases, it frankly doesn't matter, because most startups will not become spectacularly successful, and therefore, the options will never become a dominant...
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Businesses exploit the inefficiency of brackets all the time. Telcos may charge you per minute of usage, such that the second you have called for 1:00:01, you've paid for 2 minutes of phone time. More blatantly, hotels will often bill you for an entire extra night if you check out a minute late. Airlines will gleefully charge you double for a bag that's a gram over the 20kg cutoff. Software subscriptions charge you monthly rather than by the second, and will push you towards even longer, yearly intervals.
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Venture investors typically negotiate for preferred shares because preferred shares grant certain rights, privileges, and preferences that common shareholders do not receive.
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