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Valuation trickle down

The Equity Kicker

He used this chart as evidence: Second, I read Josh Kopelman’s/First Round Capital’s Open Letter to Investors from May this year which says that seed valuations are up 3x from 2007-2015 without a corresponding increase in exits. Note that we can see a similar increase in Series A valuations in Fred’s chart above.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 1999-07. Villalobos & Payne: “Startup Pre-Money Valuation: The Keystone to Return on Investment” 117. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. approx 2004-09. 1961- 1996.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. 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. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.

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Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

Feld Thoughts

“Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly. I view this is a significant negative indicator.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Uber took the shockingly low valuation of $4m when raising it’s first $1.5m. 3m valuation. Less than a $2m valuation for their seed round. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. Starting a tech company after this?

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. Specifically, too much money has gone into VC-backed Internet companies at too high a valuation. question in venture capital.

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How to Discuss Stock Options with Your Team

Both Sides of the Table

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. rounds and still be competitive.