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For startup founders, few concepts are as important—or as commonly misunderstood—as dilution. It often first arises during a financing round, when investors receive equity (i.e., shares) in exchange ...

Lucid's Q3 2025 showed 2,841 tests and $7.1 million in pro forma revenues billed, but only $1.2 million could be ...

Dilution occurs when a company issues additional shares, reducing the ownership percentage of existing shareholders. As more shares are introduced into the market, each share's claim on the company's ...

Everyone generally agrees that dilution should be avoided. VCs insist on pro-rata rights to avoid the dreaded “D” word. Executives often complain, after a new financing, that they should be “made ...

The threshold requirement for a dilution claim is that the mark is “famous.” Dilution can occur in one of two ways, either dilution by “blurring” or “tarnishment.” In 1996, Congress passed the Federal ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Investopedia / Michela Buttignol Fully diluted shares represent the total number ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable. Everybody knows that when you ...

When a closely-held business is profitable, self-interested owners naturally want a bigger slice of the pie, especially where the personal relationships among the owners are frayed. Perhaps that’s why ...