[antognini]

> ...we looked at 120 US Series A rounds...

> ...on average, founders taking preemptive offers are taking ~1.4% more dilution for less money.

Is this finding statistically significant? It's unclear what the standard deviation in the distribution of dilutions is, but if it's less than ~7.7% or so then this would be less than a 2 sigma result. Granted, given that their prior was that this should have gone the other way, that would increase the statistical significance of the result. I really have no idea what this distribution looks like, though.

[derp_dee_derp]

you are reading this blog post like a research paper, which is wrong. This is not a research paper.

this is the writers trying to influence the market so that future start ups they work with accept terms that are more favorable to YC.

they are using data and statistics because their target market would dismiss the information outhand if they did not.