Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
You should seek to get people who are respected by others in your field and who will therefore make it easier to raise the rest of your angel round.&#. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. I agree on all points. I chuckled. We all know ex McKinsey people, don’t we?
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 7, 2015
When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. revenue were the correct valuations since these are generally 5% to 10% net income businesses that are 30% – 40% gross margin and heavily dependent on (a) transitory labor and (b) favorable supply/demand conditions. I’d argue the 0.5x
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M Author howerl.
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. 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. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. All eventual unicorns.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Her background includes senior roles in both the banking and tech sectors, and she has launched four data businesses—including her current firm, New Frontier Data , which boasts a $20 million valuation and has received $5 million in funding. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer via Her Agenda. Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake, via the Los Angeles Times.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 21, 2011
Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 11, 2010
I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc.
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