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How long will the “seed stage bubble” last?

andrewchen.co

My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M They can easily raise seed money because there’s a lot of willing investors in the ecosystem. « Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999. -->. Written by Andrew Chen.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

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