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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

I've talked about this topic before in How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups. Of course, to be able to use this kind of formula, you will need to be able to determine how much impact the person will have and figure out a valuation. Same Value for Sweat Equity as Investment Dollars? the better the startup will be.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Companies ultimately go through multiple rounds.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.

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

Tim Keane

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors. . Second a liquidation preference and a participation.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. You must subtract it from your top-line revenue.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. As the check size increases, investors tend to look for more traction, established revenue models, proven unit-economics, and other metrics that were previously associated with later stage companies.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. My suggestions for the investors seeking emerging companies to back?