Dilution Finance Post-Money Valuation Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 28, 2021
Still, a lot of founders are worried about early dilution and how it affects their eventual outcome when the company is sold. You go back and forth on a price and you eventually settle on a post-money valuation cap of $6.5mm, meaning you have sold about 23% of your company. That’s because dilution isn’t subtraction.
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Seeing Both Sides
JULY 15, 2009
VCs have an unfair advantage when it comes to financings. A typical start-up company will do 2-4 venture capital financings before a successful exit (or, conversely, an ignomious ending). In contrast, the typical venture capitalist, either individually or across their partnership, will do 5-10 financings in any given year.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 11, 2011
If different investors have invested at very different prices, or if the entrepreneur has not made money before and this is their first shot, there can be greater tension inserted into a naturally tense situation. But the Series C investor who just invested at an $80 million post-money valuation would be bitterly disappointed.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
post money valuation. Mark Cuban offered $300k for 33% of the company, implying a $900k post money valuation. implying a $600k post money valuation. The company ended up negotiating with Cuban and settled on $300k for 30% of the company, or a $1M post money valuation.
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