Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Again, I see nothing wrong with this, although entrepreneurs often prefer convertible debt as it defers the valuation discussion and leaves the Series A price for the venture firm to set. He also said they typically only invest at a $1 million pre-money valuation or less. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009? Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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Altgate

MAY 24, 2012

(Dilution is the progressive shrinking of each executive’s equity percentage as the startup raises each round of financing.) When founders delay raising each round, they are typically hoping to achieve certain milestones that will raise the startup’s valuation. million, with a valuation of $10 million. As shown in Figure 9.5

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Instead of “We are worth about $5m because we have done XYZ and we need to raise $1m, so let’s sell 20%&# it’s better to think about valuation as an output variable, like “Let’s raise $2mm and sell 33%, our (pre-money) valuation is therefore $4mm.&# That’s a nice way of putting it.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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