What interferes with options? Here are some scenarios that reduce the options value embedded in your software: A key employee quits. Changes that would have taken days now take months. You distance yourself from your customers. If you get a provocative suggestion a month instead of one every day, you have fewer options. The cost of changes skyrockets. Instead of being able to exercise an option a day, you can only exercise an option a month. Fewer options, less value.
