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Founders Should Set Aside More Equity for Their Team & “Split the Pain” With Investors

Hunter Walker

Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. No one wants to run out of equity pool midway between financings (and larger seed rounds these days usually means more hiring pre-A)!

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

When companies seeking their first round of serious funding are good enough to receive a term-sheet from an investor, the first issue that always arises is valuation.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.