View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Over the last 10 years, we’ve been in a bull market with considerable froth in late stage financing activity and valuations. Looking at all vintages from 2005 to 2014, the top 5% TVPI is between 40% to 127% better than the top quartile TVPI. This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. avoid being diluted). But it is. So know that going in.
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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. Growth can dilute a business’s culture and customer value proposition and put the business in a different competitive space.
Altgate
DECEMBER 15, 2010
It is a pretty narrow filter of the 750+ companies that completed the 2010 CompStudy survey, but there are 55 rounds of financing to look at…enough to be a meaningful dataset I think. This chart shows that adding additional founders to the team is in fact dilutive, but also that the more founders the more dilutive.
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. Now it’s time for the Finance, Portfolio and Expansion teams to take over.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 30, 2018
At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years. The finance team understands that content customers are less likely to churn and destabilize revenue flows. Samsung found that television owners saw their sets as furniture and, therefore, valued sleek design.)
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 19, 2019
In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. It was 20 to 30, not 100, because of the dilution from the capital. It's literally impossible.
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