YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

When not approached carefully, growth can destroy value as it outstrips a company’s managerial capacity, processes, quality, and financial controls, or substantially dilutes customer value propositions. The right processes and controls must be put in place and taught to employees. Processes are like recipes for baking a cake.

Dilution 209

Dilution Virginia Management Washington 209

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I failed to do that with Coremetrics and I paid dearly for it with dilution. Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo! 2008 Harvard Business Review.

Bootstrapping 48

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. An employee walks up to me and says, “Mark, I’m thinking about buying a house. Most employees want cruising altitude, most founders live in take off mode. Dilution / valuation. I wasn’t expecting this much dilution this quickly.” Sorry, brah.”

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2005: 22.8. First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

Down Round 73

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 73

ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

Eugene Wei, a former Amazon employee, identified the latter as the company’s invisible asymptote , or key limiter of growth.). At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years. A “braided” approach to UX and design. Image source ). What about user personas ?

Design 111

Design Framework Product Development Technical Review 111

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2005: 22.8 First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

Marketing 36

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 36