This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

How about paying into childcare costs, adoption, or IVF too? Again, if you’re thinking about the money side of this, consider the overall cost of not being able to hire and consider how undifferentiated your current benefits options are. Or, just do the six months acroess the board—it doesn’t seem to be hurting Spotify.

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Hiring Early Stage Marketing Term Sheet 179

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. You want to build your own IPO and exit. At this stage, the founders pay for the dilution of the shares and the funders will take 20 to 25% of the company. That will come at the cost of another 20 to 25% of the company.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The cost of bringing a drug to market is expensive (hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars) and risky (it simply might not work!). Then, the revenue you earn from these partners/customers can cover your operating costs while you develop your own drug to bring to market – which is where the most value is captured in biotech.

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Dilution Artificial Inteligence IPO Valuation 132

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. After all, they doubled their operating costs when they weren’t even profitable.

Stock Options 227

Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Only about a dozen U.S.

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Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 235

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost. Short answer – yes. disclosure: I am thankfully no longer on this board). I only had one board with this problem.

Burn Rate 263

Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

And now I have to explain to team that they’re taking more dilution than they expected if we do a down round. Me: More dilution? There are a million ways to do quick, easy, low-cost rounds with prices. Maybe an IPO – who knows? But people seem pretty focused on that number. A down round? My colleague: Whoa.

Venture Capital 417

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Startup Compensation Changes with Growth Capital – 12 Years to an IPO. The three examples Suster uses – Salesforce, Google and Amazon – show how much more valuable the companies were after their IPOs. Essentially the company sells them the stock at zero cost, and they reverse vest. That made sense.

Stock Options 333

Stock Options Stock Vesting Common Stock 333

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Next, they carefully consider the range of multiples being used today to value companies being acquired or doing IPOs in the market that the business is in.   It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur. times the investment.). here of 7.65 [2].

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

My first day at Bazaarvoice was just a few weeks later, on May 2, 2005, and we built a company from inception to IPO on around $12m of capital use (out of the $24m we raised) in 7 years, creating over a thousand jobs and impacting clients all over the world?—?starting Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo! Groups list on March 15, 2005.

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Bootstrapping Austin Equity Cofounder 48

The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Layer on the opportunity cost of choosing not to pursue lucrative alternatives offered elsewhere, and it’s easy to see how, if not under the right terms, the engineer #1 position is less than appealing. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted. Is there an IPO story here? N: exit size.

Engineer 129

Engineer Dilution Option Pool Vesting 129

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And now I have to explain to team that they’re taking more dilution than they expected if we do a down round. Me: More dilution? There are a million ways to do quick, easy, low-cost rounds with prices. Maybe an IPO – who knows? But people seem pretty focused on that number. A down round? We never thought about it.

Liquidation Preference 153

Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Yes, the infrastructure is cheap (to start), but the human costs have gone up dramatically. This is another common question, especially from founders who are worried about how they now have one more round of dilution to take before they get to their Series A. Those times are long gone. It is no longer cheap to start a software company.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? One of the distinctions that has helped at the executive level is to stress that you're reducing the COST of failure, rather then its PROBABILITY. If the cost of each failure is dirt cheap, then you can afford to make a lot more failures in the course of learning.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months. Ever-more artists and authors are petitioning them.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Whether you are raising a $250K seed round or navigating a $100M IPO, the capital markets - in all of its various forms - are a fundamental constituent in the business-building journey. Adding some debt onto your balance sheet will lower your cost of capital and your dilution, which is better for existing investors and the management team.

Balance Sheet 42

Balance Sheet Entrepreneur Dilution Portfolio 42

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

3 Dilution. In addition, IPOs are a special scenario, where the preference usually goes away and all stock classes are in equal footing). Those new shares are created out of thin air by the company, and will dilute all of the current stockholders. In a startup, dilution happens, and you just need to factor it in.

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want? They just want to invest in this startup.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Beyond us claiming the first IPO ever, the Dutch could potentially claim (with a fair bit of imagination) history’s first ‘Super Angel.’ As a general rule, the more trust a society has, the lower the cost/friction of transacting with each other. The Netherlands is often described as a ‘high trust society.’ How to fix this?

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. In 2020, the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund awarded $5M of non-dilutive capital to exceptional black founders and 8 Texas founders took a big chunk of it.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

The single biggest reason that the average company struggles or even fails is due to their lack of focus and dilution of their greatest resource, which are people. Yes, cash flow is king and every start-up wants to achieve greatness or hit a sizable IPO, initial public offering sooner than later.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Leadership Early Stage Initial Public Offering 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Like the market, Invoca has learned the importance of pragmatic growth over “growth at all costs” because when markets shift companies that run lean always have more options than those that only have a growth agenda. Great companies get financed.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. It cost us nothing. And I said, The fundamentals are strong.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. It cost us nothing. And I said, The fundamentals are strong.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

The founders are getting restless because they have been diluted, have less responsibility and realize that the company isn''t going to reach $1 billion in 3 years. Would an IPO be possible in the future if we can continue growing 50-100% per year? $50-100 Do we have an IPO management team in place? 50-100 million.

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Mezzanine IPO Finance Business Model 20