Ask HN: Pre-Valuation Stock Options Advice
I recently left a pre-valuation company after being fully vested with a good chunk of NSO stock options. The company is doing well and is making good profits. Since the company has been completely bootstrapped from the beginning (over five years ago) and with no plans on taking on outside funding, it&#x27;s difficult to determine the valuation so it sounds like the company is currently using a third party to come up with the valuation. I need to exercise my stocks within a certain window (most likely after third party valuation) but I was hoping to gather some advice from others on the best way to proceed on my end.<p>Is it common to use a third party to determine valuation on a bootstrapped company?<p>Any advice with tax implications when exercising NSO stock options?<p>Also, myself and the company is based in the U.S. Just mentioning in case it affects laws and&#x2F;or taxes.