E*TRADE vs. Shareworks, by Morgan Stanley

It is well suited for investment in common stocks, bonds, and other commercial paper. It is well suited for purchasing foreign stocks. It is not presently appropriate for other investment opportunities involving private stocks or limited issues. Extracting funds can be a challenge from time to time. Collecting data on investment opportunities is not always easy to do.

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Well suited for privately or publicly held companies with stock option plans or ESPP. Helpful for calculating stock compensation expense.

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• Gives you graphic on how a stock is doing.
• Gives you some insight to the company background.
• Lets you track how your investments are doing.

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• Calendar of vesting schedule
• Visibility into value of various equity based compensation
• Ability to setup default release elections at vesting dates

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• summary page needs to have more details like it doesn't show current market price for an option purchased
• purchase or sell needs to be user friendly so it takes less time.

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• At the time, couldn't calculate a formula based on milestone vesting
• Had some small hiccups with calculating stock option compensation expense, but Capshare was able to solve over time.

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We had a great team consisting of two Solium Shareworks admin experts, and one financial reporting expert to help us with the implementation. After the implementation, I feel we are in good hands with the Solium Shareworks relationship manager. We have quarterly contact with the team when new grants need to be added. Other then that, we are self-sufficient with the tool.

Incentivized

E*TRADE allows ease of use and reasonable fees. We selected E*TRADE because they offer the set of applications we were seeking. We do not have to pay for expensive service access that we do not use. E*TRADE is compatible with our systems and their reporting has been simple to integrate into our systems.

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We like Carta because they offer transfer agent services in addition to Cap Table management. Shareworks is the upgraded Capshare. This is for IPO ready companies who are ready to take the next steps

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• Limit how much you want invest.
• This is an open trade website and there is a risk of losing your money based on your investments.
• If you make some sound investments and keep yourself within a budgeted spending limit there is the opportunity to make money on e-trade.

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• Positive - easy for employees to review stock plan and agreement.
• Positive - easy to pull cap table reports.
• Negative - requires a lot of administrative work for account activation, acceptance by users.
• Negative - support is not responsive.

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