A speed bump for selling your private shares.

What Is a Transfer Restriction?

What Is a Lock-Up Period?

You exercise now. Thank us later with some shares.

Chances are you have 90 days to exercise after you leave your company.

This is when things start to get really interesting.

Tender offers usually last for at least 20 days.

These are not stock options. No exercise required.

You have to pay to exercise stock options and convert them to shares.

These are the less tax-efficient cousin to ISOs. 

Make sure you read the fine print in your stock options grant agreement.

This is one of the most important things you'll need to know.

These can be high risk but hopefully high reward!

Yoda says, "For long-term capital gains, optimize, you must."

If you exercise ISOs when your strike price and FMV are the same you could avoid AMT.