Do Your Taxes Make You Feel Bad?
I’m doing my taxes now, and I am just so DONE. I don’t know if I’m doing them right or leaving money on the table. It just makes me realize that I don’t understand my finances as well as I want to.Read More
What Should I Do with My Stock Options?
Your privately held company just gave you stock options, either in the initial offer or after you’ve been working there for a while. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? (gratuitous 90’s movie reference for your entertainment)Read More
So Your Company Is Going IPO
Is your company going IPO? With all the stories of IPO riches that transform people’s lives life, you must be getting excited.
Early Exercising Stock Options. Whaaaa?
You’re working at an awesome company. You think it might Go Big. And they’ve given you a bunch of stock options that vest over several years. Read More
Charitable Giving for Tech Employees…Take Advantage of Your Unique Opportunities.
A friend of mine in the Bay Area recently learned from a local charity that women in tech between the ages of 25 and 45 are their biggest donors. Read More
Employee Stock Purchase Plans. With a Plan and Discipline in Your Back Pocket, It’s Free Money
If you’re anything like my husband (smart, tech savvy, but jaded about the financial industry and utterly uninterested in the nuts and bolts of personal finance), Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPPs) might strike you as unnecessarily complicated and surely they must be trying to trick you, right?
My company hit it big! What do I do with all this stock?
Some of the problems in the high tech industry are enviable problems to have. To wit: having a lot of company stock because your company made it big.Read More
