shedletsky

A unicorn I worked at for two years is going IPO soon. The RSUs are double trigger vest.

I want to hedge the risk that the stock gets cut in half in-between the IPO and the lockup expiration.

Here are the two strategies I have found so far:

1. If you have X shares/RSUs, short X additional shares at open of IPO. Cover after lockup expires.

Pro: lock in a sale at the IPO price Con: requires significant margin reserves & cost-to-borrow might be high

2. Sell costless collar on X shares using options contracts.

Pro: doesn't require huge margin reserves Con: options market is not guaranteed to exist any time during the lockup

Can I do any better than this?

I am developing a B2B eCommerce site that will accommodate a wide range of asset types.

I am working on the browse/search aspect of the site and trying to develop UX that will allow both usage modalities to happen on the same page.

I am not a professional UX designer and I am hoping to draw inspiration from other web sites. I am going for a sleek, modern, and mobile friendly feel (though for the best user experience I am willing to make 2 versions of the page, desktop and mobile).

Is there an eCommerce site that you feel totally nails searching and browsing from a UX perspective? If so, what key thing do they do better than other sites?

The two I use most often are Amazon and eBay, but in my opinion they are good at search but bad at browsing. I think Zillow is good-to-great with regards to browsing, but that may say more about the information compactness of maps vs text than anything else.

Is browsing UX a harder problem than search UX?

I've tried using their tool to report them one at a time, it's quite tedious.

I've tried emailing them at info@facebook.com. Redirected to support page.

I only care because FB is the first hit when you google my name and FB suggests connecting with these impostors on their logged out landing page.

Besides writing a bot in Selenium to scrap FB and report each profile, I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?