What Is a Lock-Up Period?

A speed bump for selling your private shares.

What Is a Transfer Restriction?

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

You exercise now. Thank us later with some shares.

This is when things start to get really interesting.

Tender offers usually last for at least 20 days.

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

These are not stock options. No exercise required.

These can be high risk but hopefully high reward!

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

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

These are the less tax-efficient cousin to ISOs. 

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

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