Fuel dilution of the engine oil is a problem that faces many modern combustion engines. Also known as “crankcase dilution” it is a process where fuel is leaked into engine oil when it travels towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's valuable for investors to have an understanding of stock dilution. Beginning and intermediate investors often get around to learning what a P/E ratio is or what market capitalization means, but ...

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 ...