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Note 8 - Stock-based Compensation
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block]
8.
Stock-Based Compensation
 
On
March 6, 2018,
Edward R. Monfort ceased serving as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer. Upon Mr. Monfort’s separation from service, the Company’s board of directors suspended Mr. Monfort’s outstanding options. Although such options remain outstanding, they were unexercisable as of
September 30, 2018
and through the date of this Quarterly Report. As of
September 30, 2018,
outstanding options to purchase an aggregate of
14,297,902
shares of common stock are attributable to Mr. Monfort.
 
In
March 2018,
the Company determined that certain non-employees, to whom it previously granted options, were
no
longer providing services to the Company. As a result, the Company canceled unvested options to purchase
297,694
shares of common stock previously granted pursuant to Company’s
2012
Stock Option and Stock Incentive Plan (the
“2012
Plan”), effective as of
February 28, 2018.
In accordance with GAAP, the Company reversed
$423,308
of previously recorded expense with respect to such unvested options. During
May,
June
and
August 2018,
certain non-employees exercised options to purchase an aggregate of
994,695
shares of common stock, for which the Company received aggregate gross proceeds of
$99,470.
In
June 2018,
unexercised options to purchase an aggregate of
499,123
shares of common stock previously held by such non-employees terminated in accordance with their terms, and the Company agreed to extend the exercise period of
one
non-employee’s option to purchase
207,968
shares of common stock until
July 31, 2018.
In
July 2018,
the Company agreed to further extend the exercise period of such option to
August 31, 2018,
and on
August 31, 2018,
such option expired unexercised.
 
In
April 2018,
the Company’s board of directors granted to certain employees and directors options to purchase an aggregate of
655,000
shares of common stock pursuant to the Company’s
2017
Equity Incentive Plan. The options vest over a
three
-year period, with
one
-
third
of the options vesting on the
one
-year anniversary of the grant date and the remainder vesting in equal installments thereafter.  The exercise price for these options is
$1.31
per share. The options were valued using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, resulting in a fair market value of
$229,643.
The assumptions used in the valuation included an expected term of
5.75
years, volatility of
62%
and a risk-free interest rate of
2.78%.
 
In
June 2018,
certain employees and directors agreed to voluntarily surrender options to purchase an aggregate of
3,450,000
shares of common stock at an exercise price of
$10.49
per share previously issued to such individuals in
March 2017
pursuant to the
2012
Plan. Neither the Company nor the holders of such options will have any further rights or obligations with respect to such options, or with respect to any shares of common stock that could have been purchased upon exercise of such options, and
none
of the holders of the options received any value from the Company in connection with such surrender. The Company recognized stock-based compensation expense relating to these options for the months of
April
and
May 2018
and for
10
days for the month of
June 2018,
as these options vested monthly on the
10
th
of each month. Accordingly,
no
additional stock-based compensation expense relating to these options has been recorded.
 
Stock option activity for the
nine
months ended
September 30, 2018
is as follows:
 
        Weighted   Weighted
        Average   Average
   
Number of
 
Exercise
 
Remaining
   
Shares
 
Price
 
Contractual Life (years)
Outstanding at December 31, 2017    
30,375,000
 
  $
1.33
 
   
4.0
 
Granted    
655,000
 
  $
1.31
 
   
 
 
Exercised    
(994,695
)
  $
0.10
 
   
 
 
Canceled/Forfeited    
(5,306,883
)
  $
7.05
 
   
 
 
Outstanding at September 30, 2018    
24,728,422
 
  $
0.15
 
   
2.9
 
                         
Exercisable at September 30, 2018    
8,758,138
 
  $
0.10
 
   
3.2
 
 
Stock-based compensation expense was approximately
$317,222
and
$10.6
million for the
three
months ended
September 30, 2018
and
2017,
respectively, and approximately
$6.1
million and
$15.7
million for the
nine
months ended
September 30, 2018
and
2017,
respectively, and is included in general and administrative expense in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of operations. As of
September 30, 2018,
the Company expects to recognize approximately
$1.2
million of stock-based compensation expense for the non-vested portion of outstanding options over a weighted-average period of
1.1
years.
 
As of
September 30, 2018,
the Company’s outstanding options have an intrinsic value of approximately
$11.1
million, which includes the suspended options to purchase an aggregate of
14,297,902
shares of common stock that are attributable to Mr. Monfort.