crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The video above shows a devilishly evil and creative campaign by delivery company DHL. How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Well done, DHL!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Worldwide, almost fifty campaigns since then have exceeded the $10 million dollar mark, despite targets as low as $20K. Unreasonably high early valuations hurt the entrepreneurs, as well as professional investors, later when a second round becomes a down round or can’t be negotiated.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Crowdfunding is also an option where you can raise funds through crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, but unfortunately Indian regulation only allows crowdfunding for some non-profit Check out this article if you want to know more about crowdfunding: 10 things about running a successful crowdfunding campaign. ? Startup competitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Worldwide, more than fifty campaigns since then have exceeded the $10 million dollar mark, despite targets as low as $20K. Unreasonably high early valuations hurt the entrepreneurs, as well as professional investors, later when a second round becomes a down round or can’t be negotiated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

Unreasonably high early valuations hurt the entrepreneurs, as well as professional investors, later when a second round becomes a down round or can’t be negotiated. A startup that is listed on a crowdfunding platform gets no formal pushback or negotiation on its declared valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

We cut price and doubled down on an aggressive campaign to call back people who had been on the fence given the economic climate of prices dropping. Luckily we were never a unicorn so we didn’t have to have a destructive massive down-round that makes it harder (but not impossible) to get done.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. And I said, I think it’s going to be a down round, because people are scared. That probably saved a huge amount of dilution, rather than doing a down round at between $15 billion to $18 billion.

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