Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.
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.
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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.
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.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 15, 2016
I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.
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. It’s likely to be related to improving revenues, reducing costs, increasing the number of new customers, increasing the sales from existing customers, or increasing shareholder value. What about user personas ?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. Sure, our revenue is growing, but is that enough to raise an internal round? Dilution / valuation. I hate when companies publish too much information about the total stock option allocations, the company valuations, the dilution faced in every round, etc. Sorry, brah.”
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