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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

On Wednesday, April 18th, I gave a keynote speech on US Startup Valuation Trends for the 1st Irish Angel Meetup. Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue.

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How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors

David Teten

Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Hence, if Sequoia is the lead and the valuation is reasonable, it’s near 100% chance. Market Insight. Alpha pursues a similar model.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. -CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

If you find the right community it’s a great way to learn, contribute and get to know other people with similar interest. Basically, it’s a topic community discussion board and that’s why people go to AVC.com every day. At an $86 million, pre-money valuation Benchmark sure did pay up for this investment.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Lower level of community familiarity.