Startup Offer & Equity Negotiation Review
This high-impact coaching package gives you the exact tools, data, and scripts needed to decode startup equity, evaluate company risk, and confidently negotiate top-tier total compensation. What’s Included: * 1-on-1 Live Strategy Coaching: A dedicated session to analyze active offer letters, map out your negotiation timeline, and practice exact counter-offer messaging. * Interactive Equity Valuation Model: A custom spreadsheet tool that turns complex equity terms (ISOs/RSUs, dilution, cap tables) into projected real-dollar values across different scenarios. * Founder Diligence Checklist: A prioritized list of critical questions to ask founders during discussions to evaluate company runway, burn rate, and equity pool health. * Custom Counter-Offer Action Plan: A step-by-step roadmap tailored to your specific situation to help you frame your value, manage competing offers, and execute your decision with total confidence.
What's included
Our first session will be live. If we need a follow-up, I'm happy to schedule another meeting, though a quick text or brief call is usually enough to walk through the rest of the process.
- Tactical Scripting & Offer Framing: Clients receive direct coaching on how to position counter-offers, articulate their value, and reframe negotiation discussions without creating friction
- Specific Questions for Employers: Candidates learn the exact questions to ask founders and hiring managers to gain clarity on company health, valuation, and offer details.
- Quantifiable Equity & Offer Valuation: Clients gain a clear, mathematical framework to conceptualize and quantify the true value of subjective startup equity offers.
Meet your expert
Deepak G.
Negotiation for Startup Offers | Entrepreneurship & VC
Having spent 15+ years as a venture capitalist, 4-time startup operator, fractional CFO, and career advisor, Deepak knows firsthand how opaque, intimidating, and fragmented Silicon Valley and high-growth ecosystems can be. When he was starting out, having the right mentor made all the difference. Today, he brings that firsthand experience to helping others navigate these environments with greater clarity and confidence. Deepak’s investment portfolio includes category-defining companies such as OpenAI, Ayar Labs, Coreshell, Trulia, Ancestry, and Box. Before transitioning to venture, he spent over a decade in the medical startup space, serving in both entrepreneurial and management capacities. His tenure in operations was marked by two successful exits: Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) and NeuroPace (NASDAQ: NPCE). He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.