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. Risk is increased.

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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. Risk is increased.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Due Diligence Equity 201

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. Later funding rounds can’t deal with a thousand shareholders. Even if the additional rounds are also crowdfunded, the same considerations apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. 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. forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Did he want to see if Invoca could be public some day?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. 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. So we’re going to do debt.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. 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. So we’re going to do debt.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s sort of like a supercharged version of Excel that lets you suck in data, you can suck in all your Facebook advertising campaigns, you can suck in all your Salesforce.com data, and you can run — you can actually, yourself, as a small business person, actually analyze and find friends and data.

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