2008 Dilution Early Stage Syndication 
View from Seed
JANUARY 26, 2016
With that in mind, let’s look at an illustration of these trends below, which demonstrates what’s been happening to early-stage financing rounds over the last 15 years or so. Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit. Also, the stage of the company tends to be very early.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. They said that they didn’t want the extra money or dilution. A very well known early stage fund used to have a rule that they didn’t do follow ons.
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Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. ► May. (1).
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. Yes, this was stupid.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.
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