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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Generous With Investors

YoungUpstarts

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

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Seed Stage Startups Are Now Graded on a Curve

View from Seed

Rather, it has been broken into bits of a series of capital raises to reach meaningful milestones… “pre-seed,” “post-seed,” and rounds in between have become the norm. Whether or not this situation is good or bad for entrepreneurs and the ecosystem, it is indeed reality. Effective) post-money valuation.

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Quick Post on Post-Money Valuations

Rob Go

Most term sheets talked about the valuation in these terms, and you added the dollars invested to get a post-money valuation. Founders also had to do a little math on the new option pool to really understand what their ownership would be post investment, since it was typically taken out of the company pre-money.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

But mainly we did it because these corporate VCs were among the only groups willing to invest at PayPal’s somewhat inflated post-money valuation, during the middle of the dot-com crash when traditional VCs pulled back sharply and other sources of funding were constrained.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).

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The $10 Million Photo and Other VC Stories

ReadWriteStart

All we had were six slides, and I wanted a $10 million post-money valuation. But it was my eighth startup and my partner Ben was even more experienced. We had gone back and forth with them on valuation, but this was a new firm and they wanted to close a deal with us. We can do $9.99 Invest in the Team.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

If you’re a startup, you are by definition competing with the smartest people in the world – either large companies with more resources than yours or fellow entrepreneurs who are hoping to disrupt large companies. Raising money for a startup from an angel investor : Learn pre-money and post-money valuations are.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. This is a fundamental issue that does, indeed, boil down to understanding the post-money valuation of a company. Many entrepreneurs lose track of what they have been cooking up in the cap table.