How to Value Your Equity at an Early Stage Startup - Chris Stanton  - Introduction
Channel: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
Date: 11/06/2021

Considering joining an early-stage startup? Most employees hope to join a rocketship and being offered equity at an early-stage can sound tempting. But how do you know what value to assign to the shares of equity you’ve been offered—what is your percentage really worth?

Chris Stanton, HBS professor and expert in entrepreneurial management, analyzed data gathered by Sand Hill Econometricson on over 10,000 venture-backed firms. After reviewing data and interviewing VCs and entrepreneurs, he and Shikhar Ghosh devised a framework to help you assign a value to equity shares as an employee at an early-stage startup.