An article by John Demeter, WilmerHale counsel and a Wall Street Journal panelist, originally published by The Experts blog on WSJ.com on November 24, 2015.


As the founder of a startup, you'd love to reward your employees with hefty holiday bonuses, but your business is bootstrapped and cash is, undoubtedly, in somewhat short supply.

So you might be looking for holiday gifts that telegraph goodwill yet don't break the bank.

Here's the solution that many founders are coming up with: They are giving employees the gift of extra time to exercise their vested stock options after they leave.

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