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ESOP Dilution Calculator Tool
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Free startup dilution calculator to understand the impact of dilution after ESOP and venture capital investments.
- Simple Excel sheet
- See effect on ESOP
- Learn about dilution
- Easy to play with
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What
What Is an ESOP Dilution Calculator?
No one was born knowing everything let alone startup dilution, you have to learn at some point and in some way. How you make money in a startup is one such point. It sounds easy though, right? You startup, get a bit of cash and then sell for a chunk of change and start driving a Tesla. Only it’s a bit more complicated than that.
You start owning the whole of your company, and if you bootstrap and don’t give any shares to the staff you will continue to own all of it. But that’s not normal for most tech startups these days, since, along the way other people get a cut of your company and so upside when you hopefully exit. Others getting a cut is called dilution, and it’s what we are going to get into in detail. Only, we aren’t going to do the basic version, we’re going to learn about the impact of ESOPs (Employee Share Ownership Plan) on this ‘dilution’ too. In this way, you can understand how your staff get rich too.
who
Who Needs a Startup Dilution Calculator Tool?
Everyone in startup-related land needs to know about this topic. So whether you are a founder, investor or advisor, why not have a little play with this!
Details
What Does the Tool Look Like?
It’s a very simple model so there is one image. I might make it more fancy in future.
Need
Why Do You Need an ESOP Dilution Calculator?
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Understand the Effect of Dilution
- Dilution happens like death and taxes
- You need to know how raising money affects your ownership
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See How ESOP Sizes Change
- You make an ESOP pool, but it will shrink
- Investors will keep asking you to make it larger each time you raise
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Investors Will Expect You to Understand Raising
- This is the absolutely most basic model you need to start with
- Without understanding dilution, you can’t learn more advanced topics
features
What Can the Model Do?
These are some of the features in the model.
Track Dilution
See what happens round by round
- Start
- Do a seed, then series-A and B
- See how the target ESOP changes pre and post round
Play With Basic Assumptions
This is a simple model
- Play around with ownership
- Set ESOP % pre rounds
Need
Why Is My Tool Worth Getting
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I Make Cool Things (and am capable)
- There is a lot of blah around by people who aren’t terribly good at Excel/PowerPoint etc
- You’ll see the attention to detail and actual thought put into what I gift you (so you aren’t wasting your time)
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My Free Tools Are Better Than What Some Charge For
- I only made tools because I couldn’t find anything I would use myself
- Even if you don’t ‘actually need the tool’, the point is to teach you concepts you can apply
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I Don’t Have a Hardcore Marketing Funnel
- I make tools to actually help founders
- You aren’t going to be hounded with emails to get you to buy things
- Whilst I do sell some stuff, seeing the quality I give for free is way better marketing than using fancy words to convince you
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Watch a Video On the Tool
Here’s a video for you to hang out with me and do some math!
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- It is automatically emailed to you!
- I’ll send you some emails about startup/investing after
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- Your data is never sold! I’m not organised to even do that lol
- You agree to all T&C legal stuff (to cover my ass)
FAQs
Check the FAQs if you are having issues. Don’t message me if “I can’t download the file”.
Is this free?
How do I download?
Fill in your name and email in the submission form and it will be emailed to you.
I didn't receive the email?
My (automated) system works. You’ve made a basic mistake.
- Check you input your email accurately
- Check your spam folder (Whitelist me if you found the email in spam)
Can I get consulting to use the file?
Yes. You can book a consulting call here:
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How do I open the file?
When you press download in an email from me, it normally saves to your Downloads folder.
So go there first to find the file.
I normally have to ZIP the file so it will work with SaaS automation systems.
So get WinZip, WinRAR, or use whatever Mac/PC offers these days. Unzip the file (Right click and press “uncompress” etc). If you don’t know how to do this, then use Google.
Once you uncompress, the ZIP file will remain, and you will see a new file (sort the download folder by date modified if confused).
I assure you that everything I provide works, so if you can’t access it, it’s a ‘you’ problem.
Can I sell / share your tools?
No.
You can share a link to this page, which would be much appreciated!
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