View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But this financing contour description is just a proxy for underlying business metrics. The amount raised in a round and the goals associated with it during a seed just don’t always fit into a neat bucket. ( Here’s a more detailed blog post about how my partners and I approach pre-seed rounds with conviction. ).

Seed Stage 247

Seed Stage Finance Dilution Early Stage 247

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Terrific post & great insight by Andrew Mason discussing Internal Tools at Detour | Detour Blog – crowdspring.co/1poOjMf. The Pernicious Effect of Dilution in SaaS: The Cold, Hard, Bloody numbers | saastr – crowdspring.co/W6Bwqs. Benchmarking Hubspot’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up – crowdspring.co/1qlwWRG.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less.

Valuation 319

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

This chart shows that adding additional founders to the team is in fact dilutive, but also that the more founders the more dilutive. Is the dilution of co-founders counterbalanced by other factors? Perhaps the are other tell-tale metrics like time required to raise money vs. number of founders…need to think more on that.

Pre-Money Valuation 66

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Cofounder Founder 66

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. I think theyve succeeded.

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less.

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. Is that a lot?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Seasoned experts suggest that you should optimize for a metric which can affect the bottom line of your business. These metrics ensure that most of your efforts can be tied to monetary values. The downside that all those metrics have in common is that they only measure the short-term effects gained with your tests.

Programming 117

Programming Audience Analytics Metrics 117

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In any experiment, some metric within some group usually changes, but whether we’ve invested in the statistical rigor to discover it is another question altogether.”. Knowing these finer details can help meaningfully shift your metrics in a positive direction, where they may have once been plateauing. Image Source.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

For the reader of this blog that owns a young digitally-native brand, my guess is that retail isn’t an actionable part of the strategy yet and you’d be better served optimizing DTC for now. Discounts too early can also have the adverse effect of diluting a brand when targeting a more affluent customer segment.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Advisory Board 151

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 21, 2011

That’s why I started the Traffic Generation Cafe blog, focusing on various free traffic generation methods like search engine traffic, social media traffic, networking, as well as how to convert that traffic into subscribers and buyers. In six quick months, my blog grew to be an authority on traffic generation. That’s it?

Engineer 99

Engineer Search SEO Advertising 99

The Next Web

OCTOBER 5, 2013

This post was originally published on the Buffer blog. It can divide your efforts so much that your whole strategy becomes diluted because you’re more focused on the tools you’re using that the results you’re aiming for. Measurement overwhelm – Don’t measure every social media metric you can. Choose a good metric.

Social Media 165

Social Media Media Metrics Audience 165

David Teten

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

(This is the second of three blog posts on financial models for startups. The model outputs standard financial statements and key operating metrics based on a wide range of user inputs, and is highly customizable and entirely transparent. More on this in a later blog post. Download the template financial model in Excel here.

Balance Sheet 154

Balance Sheet Startup Equity Valuation 154

Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Cap tables list a company’s authorized and outstanding shares, the parties to which those shares have been assigned, and the various metrics relevant to managing them. Such metrics can include an investor’s liquidation preference, option exercise windows and expiry dates, and shareholders’ fully diluted ownership percentages.

Cap Table 40

Cap Table Liquidation Preference Dilution Liquidity Event 40

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). But on this blog and in my newsletter I’ve shared enough strategies you should not use to slant data – use them. They dilute the analysis with non-facts.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. I wear it on my sleeve (and on my blog). A couple of dilution points here or there wont matter in the long run but working with the right people will.? blog comments powered by Disqus.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Board Effect

MAY 13, 2019

At this stage, startups should be taking the time to develop a cap table structure that supports growth; plugging in the formulas to eventually model valuations and equity dilution during seed-stage negotiations. Anticipating this, founders can prepare waterfalls and what-if scenarios to model dilution in advance of investor negotiations.

Cap Table 40

Cap Table Management Liquidity Event Dilution 40

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? What specific metrics should they be monitoring?

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Track the metrics mentioned above. And, ideally, that message should come from your business’s core values and strategies.

Small Business 55

Small Business Metrics Social Media Audience 55

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Those are the only 2 metrics you need initially. What’s the best way to commercialize a blog?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

In fighting to have developers checking in code dictate production releases, you risk looking unreasonable and diluting a powerful message that everyone should agree on: "small batches of changes that are automatically and continuously tested" June 15, 2009 7:55 PM Matthew D Edwards said.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Rob Go

JUNE 10, 2013

Each could be a few blog posts in and of themselves. Worry more about making sure you pass than an extra point of dilution. Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month. Love these 95 pieces of advice from Sam Altman in honor of the new YC batch. Orignal link here. Startup Advice. Sleep and exercise.

Startup 49

Startup Technical Cofounder Hiring Cofounder 49

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. This blog post was originally published as an edition of my newsletter TMAI Premium. Don’t test for a vanity metric. It truly is the bee's knees.

Analytics 101

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   This is most commonly used when a conversion confers superior economic benefits on the preferred stockholder. ·       Anti-dilution provisions that reduce the price of the preferred shares (using a variety of formulas) in the event that the company issues new stock at a lower price.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On April 10, 2014, I published a blog post, titled The New Venture Landscape , which explained why and how the venture ecosystem was shifting. If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? I’ve written about this on the K9 Ventures blog.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Thanks to Twitter friends for pointing me to Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation by Mike Myatt, on his N2Growth Blog. Any new idea should preferably add value to existing initiatives, and if not, it should show a significant enough return on investment to justify the dilutive effect of not keeping the main thing the main thing.

Dilution 60

Dilution Framework Metrics Engineer 60

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fab.com Bradfords Blog Fab Feed. A couple of dilution points here or there wont matter in the long run but working with the right people will. Don’t skimp on fundraising because of dilution fears. blog comments powered by Disqus. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. This is tricky.

Post-Money Valuation 92

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. Raise money in a highly dilutive way. —The Geto Boys, Mind Playing Tricks on Me. By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology.

Management 78

Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

There is always a market for strong companies, but you just may take more dilution than you otherwise would if you raise capital, or you may raise less for the same dilution. Were you chasing the right metrics and did you have the right priorities? Funding may be challenging, but it by no means has completely dried up.

Marketing 28

Marketing Dilution Burn Rate Seed Stage 28

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. Start by defining what metrics are important.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

A multiple is a company value divided by a metric. Ignoring dilution and balance sheet changes, Company Awesome would have made investors ~13x, while Company Good would only have returned ~2x. Ignoring dilution and balance sheet changes, Company Awesome would have made investors ~8x while Company Good would only return ~2x.

Valuation 36

Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Many blogs suggest you simply divide 1 by your monthly churn rate to get to a number of months of duration that you can expect to collect revenues from your customer. Thus, the cost of capital for a start-up (and the dilution a founder faces in exchange for that capital) is very high.

Churn Rate 20

Churn Rate Early Stage Revenue Metrics 20

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Use your marketing strategy to ensure campaigns never dilute your brand perception. The tone of voice follows suit, delivering information in a light, conversational tone that carries through its website, blog posts, and social media content marketing. How Lemonade positions itself in a crowded market.

Campaign 109

Campaign Social Media Audience Channel 109

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

A few years ago, I wrote a few case studies on how some big players achieved scale - like Akamai , TripAdvisor and athenahealth - to help crystalize my thinking on the topic, but I thought it might be appropriate to write a more general blog post on the challenges that companies face at different points in the scaling process. .

Mezzanine 20

Mezzanine IPO Finance Business Model 20