Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. The co-founder relationship dilemma.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Many academic labs are less interested in market trends and largely ignore competitive landscape and market demands. This unique business model is proven to secure strategic and non-dilutive capital as part of a business model. As a result, research funding is not met with a reasonable return on investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Outside contracts and freelancing rapidly dilute everyone’s focus on the higher company mission and purpose. In summary, I am supportive of the trend toward delayering, reducing the number of managerial layers, and managerial training for those interested in that role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Younger Gen-Y entrepreneurs also tend to be more passionate, idealistic and not driven by money, so I would expect to see them trend up in lifestyle entrepreneurship. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

In fact, they may fear team leadership as a burden, or a potential dilution of their ownership. Proven ability to spot new trends and willing to take risks. Good entrepreneurs are often diluted in their potential by trying to attack too many new market opportunities or customer requests concurrently.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I think we’re far enough into this trend to see that having strong board members — including VCs — is a healthy alternative to party-rounds of crowd funding with no oversight. Boards are not appointed to be founder-friendly lapdogs for the 1–3 founders who start companies and usually own the largest equity positions in the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Don’t confuse and dilute your potential customer base by weakly trying to appeal to all. Customers today are more socially conscious than ever before, which is a great trend. I now use them exclusively. Target most relevant customer segments first. Actively ask for feedback, and provide rewards for participation.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But now, startup failure rates, which were already elevated in 2022, have trended even higher as we approach Q4 2023 according to new data from Carta. The Carta data showed the following trends: About half of the companies that closed had not raised any venture capital, relying solely on bootstrapping, angel investors, or other sources.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

15- Study supply chains and hiring trends. Businesses, in order to function, will have to study supply chains as well as hiring trends to determine pricing, promotions and service offerings, adjusting to current conditions. Thanks to James Wilkinson, Balance One Supplements ! #15- Photo Credit: Cody Candee. Photo Credit: Emir Bacic.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trends described above in VC performance have an upstream effect on Limited Partners which is somewhat counter-intuitive. These growth rounds may be more dilutive than planned, but will still occur without punitive terms and allow founders, teams, and early investors to emerge with very successful outcomes at the very end.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2021

But existing shareholders are not happy with the company’s proposed plan to issue $500 million in new shares as it would only dilute its current float. You should focus on making your startup irresistible to investors without opting for a dilutive capital raise. Understand market share . Maintain relevance through innovation.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Looking at current trends, companies are taking on debt sooner than they ordinarily would have before, in addition to taking on more of it in dollar amount. It’s not often a seed-stage company — usually it’s later — but the trends are going earlier and larger. NVV: Is there any dilution?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

When the WSJ and the NYTimes write the same trend story you can assume it’s a narrative that is being pushed by people who want it to be true! Satya likes to describe the trend as “outsourced R&D.” It could lower earnings because of continued investment and share dilution. So, is it true?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A finalist in the Social and Culture category , which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, EnrichHER Funding , based in Atlanta, is fueling the growth of women-led businesses by enabling women founders to secure capital in an affordable and non-dilutive way. What tech trend are you most excited about?

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

Other companies are great businesses, but are effectively encountering a dilution event. The business will ultimately emerge on the other end in good shape, but everyone will be more diluted as a result. What’s interesting in this case is that if there is a general trend for VC portfolios, it’s probably in the positive direction.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

However, the causes of the Micro VC trend are more substantially attributed to the entrepreneur demand-side of the VC equation. That being said, in a world where $800M funds transition towards $400M funds, they remain distinctly different in magnitude from a Micro VC even if the fund sizes converge on a relative basis. Structural.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Social CRM is becoming quite a trend, and CrowdEngineering really pushes the envelope on the subject.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. The co-founder relationship dilemma.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. A-Rounds used to be $3–7 million with the best companies able to skip this smaller amount and raise $10 million on a $40 million pre-money valuation (20% dilution). So in a way it’s self selecting. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Trending Hashtags. A trending hashtag is a hashtag related to a trending topic or event. While trending hashtags can’t be relied on for long-term engagement, they are great for seizing the moment and capitalizing on a brief, but intensely popular topic. Niche Hashtags.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

This means FC avoids trends and relentlessly questions entrepreneurs about how their product enables specific use cases and market opportunities. We want to work with people who bring a focused and complementary perspective to investing and were interested in the Founder Collective mantra of being “stage-focused and sector agnostic.”.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 15, 2023

Identify Future Trends The first step to staying ahead of the competition in the security industry is to identify future trends. Make it so that they don’t need to combine services – something that could dilute your brand and offering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Younger Gen-Y entrepreneurs also tend to be more passionate, idealistic and not driven by money, so I would expect to see them trend up in lifestyle entrepreneurship. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Investors tend to invest in a hot trend. Raising higher capital at an early stage means more equity to be diluted to the investors. Moreover, there is always a possibility of a future merger and consolidation. So do your research into the investor’s portfolio before pitching. Capital is expensive. It might be tempting to do so.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2016

Part of this is the emergence of “pre-seed” as a category, but I’ve also seen traditional institutional seed investors trending towards smaller initial rounds as well. And I think this is a really good trend for a few reasons. Dilution is the big question here. One reason is that smaller seeds lead to more speed before PMF.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Equity financing can give you a lot of cash upfront, but it can also dilute your ownership stake in your company. According to Mark Stiffler, you also need to be aware of the latest trends in technology. For example, debt financing can help you keep control of your company, but it can also put financial pressure on your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. The co-Founder relationship dilemma.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Sometimes these are led by outside investors and old ones will just take the impact and walk away.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. This trend is also persisting for more recent vintages, although the effect seems greater for DPI vs. TVPI. This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The idea that novel products with minimal value to customers will somehow start a new trend is simply false. I find that most good founders proceed faster on their own, with less drain on their time from peers and programs, and no equity dilution. You need quirky and more unheard-of ideas to succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession: Venture capital funds are still recovering from the recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. The co-founder relationship dilemma.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. This trend is also persisting for more recent vintages, although the effect seems greater for DPI vs. TVPI. This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s pretty basic but is meant to give managers (and their potential LPs) a sense of how many companies will be in the fund, ownership targets, dilution assumptions, reserves strategy, exit expectations and ultimately, a target return for the fund. This exercise is also known as “let me show you how we get to 3-5x net.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. The co-Founder relationship dilemma.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2015

Organizational leaders often look to the recent trends in the industry to give their company a certain edge. With this in mind, here are today’s top e-commerce trends: Mobile isn’t just a gimmick anymore. One of the biggest trends to take note of, if your business hasn’t already, is the large-scale shift toward the mobile platform.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This can be tricky and you could end up with a confusing or diluted message. You’ll adjust to emerging trends faster. Every industry also has new trends that emerge. When you hear of a new trend, you’ll be able to adjust your client’s marketing accordingly, giving them an advantage over competitors.

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