The Options for Options
Sim Simeonov has a nice post on the subject of what is the best option vesting schedule. Options are a topic that has received a lot of attention in the blogosphere. A while back there was a lengthy discussion of options on Fred Wilson’s blog that, as I recall revolved around the need to think of option grants as percentages of the equity of the issuer (rather than in numbers of shares. The EEC blog has many posts on options (and the related topic of restricted stock). All these posts tend to focus on some discrete aspect of options that came up in the author’s business. For a more general discussion, you can go to the Emerging Enterprise Center web site under "Ask the Start-up Lawyer." There you will find a general overview of the basics.
