Employee Stock Options - Page 2

Upgrade from spreadsheets to cap table software to simplify fundraising, clarify voting power, streamline planning, and reduce legal friction.

See 2026 startup salary benchmarks for founders and early hires, equity grant data, and hiring cost budgets. Plan offers without draining your runway.

Learn what authorized shares are, how many your startup should authorize at incorporation, and how this choice impacts your cap table, investors, and option ...

Make sure that your company gets a favorable tax rate. Learn about the 83(b) election for shareholders as well as how and when to file. Read more.

Use Kruze's calculator to check on how your option pool will dilute founder ownership, and review information about setting up an option pool.

Kruze Consulting answers the frequently asked question 'what does an outside General Counsel do?' & the benefits to having one on your side.

Kruze Consulting's VP of FP&A, Healy Jones, gives a breakdown on startup Corporate Tax Returns (required by the IRS) and the options employees have.