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The venture capital world is often at odds with the goals of young startups — and in some cases, it can lead to destruction.
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After 7 years of “blood, sweat, and instant noodles,” Ben built his startup into an exciting enterprise. He raised a hefty round from a “top-tier” venture capital firm. And in 2011, he found himself in the final stages of an exit, with an $88m buyout offer in his lap.
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That “something” never came: Over the next few years, the company lost momentum. Growth began to stagnate. Ben’s co-founders jumped ship. And eventually, when it folded altogether, it sold for pennies on the dollar.
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Ben’s story is one of many cautionary tales of VC funding gone awry.
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Today’s startups are fixated on fundraising — and it’s certainly there for the taking: Last year, VC funding hit a decade-long record-high of
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Validation
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But as
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Why?
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1. They take big bets, and want a big payoff
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As Ben learned, VCs often aren’t satisfied with $10m, $25m, or $50m exits or IPOs: they operate on a “go big or go home” mentality — and they typically want to see an outcome well north of $100m.
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Venture capitalists are highly selective, and it’s not uncommon for a partner to only invest in 2-3 companies per year. They look for startups with explosive growth potential that cater to multi-billion dollar markets. A company that sells for $50m (and nets them, say, 30%) has very little impact on their portfolio.
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“Some VCs would rather run you into the ground trying to make you a unicorn than entertain an offer under $100m,” one disgruntled founder tells me.
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Founders who raise VC often end up in a position where they have to reject an offer that would be great for them just because it doesn’t satisfy an investor’s grandiose return expectations.
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2. They push insanely fast growth at all costs
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As Founder Collective investor Micah Rosenbloom says: “[VCs] are in the business of funding
<em>
fast-growing
</em>
companies" — not inventors or inventions. They often want to make you a “$100m company before you’re ready to be a $10m company.”
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VCs want to see
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But the biggest issue with this growth obsession is what Paley calls the “marginal dollar problem.”
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“There is such a vanity rush toward revenue and growth, that people stop looking at what the
<em>
cost
</em>
of that revenue is,” he tells me. “They’ll do things like double the sales force when sales aren’t even close to returning on their expense. Soon, you’re spending $1 just to get back 50 cents.”
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3. They severely dilute a founder’s stake in the company
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In the pursuit of capital, a founder relinquishes a hefty percentage of his or her company to investors.
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During seed funding (family, friends, and angel investors), a company typically gives away about 15% of its shares. An option pool (giving shares to early employees) takes up an additional ~15%.
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But things really start to dilute when VCs get involved. For the average Series A round, investors expect a 25% to 50% stake; for Series B, they expect around 33%. After a few rounds, a founder is considered lucky to be left with 20% of what he or she created.
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These sacrifices should, in theory, give you a bigger payoff in the end — but that’s not necessarily true.
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Take, for example, the case of Arianna Huffington (founder of
<em>
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</em>
), and Michael Arrington (founder of
<em>
TechCrunch
</em>
).
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Huffington sold her company for $315m, but multiple VC funding rounds left her with only a small percentage of the company. She walked away with a reported $21m. Arrington sold TechCrunch for ~$40m — one-tenth of Huffington’s exit — but since he didn’t raise external funding, his payday was around $25-30m.
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4.
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Their advice and expertise is often overrated
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There is a patently false understanding that venture capitalists have investment down to a science.
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“Trust me, we have no idea what we’re doing sometimes,” an especially candid Silicon Valley VC tells me. “Like any financier, we rely on immeasurables like blind faith and intuition... There’s no fool-proof formula.”
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Vinod Khosla
</a>
, founder of Khosla Ventures, has said that most VCs “haven’t done sh*t” to help startups through difficult times, and he estimated that “70% to 80% percent [of VCs] add negative value to a startup in their advising.”
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This is often coupled with poor outcomes: Research by Harvard lecturer Shikhar Ghosh indicates that around
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75%
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don’t end up delivering projected return on investment. (VCs "bury their dead very quietly," he told the
<em>
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</em>
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5. Raising tons of cash doesn’t = success
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At some point, “valuation” (driven by inflated VC investments) became the barometer for success in the startup world.
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But an in-depth
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found that there is
<strong>
not
</strong>
a strong correlation between the amount of money a company raises and a successful outcome.
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Consider this: 14 of the 20 startups with the largest market cap over the past 5 years raised $100m or less (compared to a $284m average); 6 of them (30%) raised less than $50m.
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“The fact is that the amount of money startups raise... is
<em>
inversely
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. “Yes, I mean that. Less money raised leads to more success. That is the data I stare at all the time.”
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For young startups, bootstrapping (funding a company out of pocket, and with the money generated from customers) is an ideal alternative: It enables founders to set their own pace and formulate their own concept of “value.”
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