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Demystifying Private Stock Liquidity: Exploring and Completing a Liquidity Transaction
In today’s economic climate, more private company employees may turn to liquidity providers to help generate cash and maximize their net worth. And as a leading liquidity provider, we frequently receive questions from these employees about how private stock liquidity and option-exercise transactions work and why you may want to work with a liquidity provider.…
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Understanding The Value of Your Private Company Equity: Rule 701 and Why It Matters
Many startup employees are unfamiliar with Rule 701 of the Securities Act. But if you’re a private company employee holding equity compensation, it should be on your radar. Rule 701 can help you obtain information to better understand your equity awards and inform your decisions, like whether to exercise your stock options. Private companies are…
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Demystifying Liquidity: Is A Private Stock Liquidity Solution Worth Exploring?
In today’s economic climate, more private company employees may turn to liquidity providers to help generate cash and maximize their net worth. And as a leading liquidity provider, we frequently receive questions from these employees about how private stock liquidity and option-exercise transactions work and why you may want to work with a liquidity provider.…
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How Liquidity Can Help Recruiting and Retention
Most startup teams are well-versed in equity compensation, namely stock options that vest over time. Stock options are a great tool to allow smaller or younger companies to compete for talent against larger, more mature, and deep-pocketed competitors. Is there a way, however, to take equity compensation a step further? At Liquid Stock, we believe…
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3 M&A Challenges in 2023: Capital, Technology, and Culture
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When You Exercise Your Private Stock Options Matters
One of the questions we get asked most often at Liquid Stock is, “why does it matter when I exercise my private company options?” Our response is that it can matter a lot, for a variety of reasons, from the amount of taxes you’ll pay to the risk you’ll bear. Option exercises at a private…
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Let’s Talk 2023 IPOs: A Q&A With Liquid Stock Founding Partner, Greg Martin
After a record-breaking 2021, the global IPO market suffered a significant slowdown in 2022 due to a vast increase in market volatility. We sat down with Liquid Stock’s Founding Partner, Greg Martin, to get his thoughts on what the 2023 IPO market is shaping up to look like. We discussed what he believes it will take for the…
