www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., As you think about how much equity to offer, have a reasonable valuation in mind thats been determined using professional advice. Copyright © 2000 inc.com.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. I was resolute.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years!

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? Focusing not just on the short term, but on generational lasting change.

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Silicon Valley Design Hiring Government 113

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. The US markets have generally proven themselves as giving better valuations, and long term liquidity.”. Founders are often restricted to how many shares they can sell in the IPO, and this is to keep their skin in the game.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. Dotomi, which was founded in 2003, raised $17 million in funding since its inception from Globespan Capital, US Venture Partners, Investor Capital and Velocity. Dotomi founder Yair Goldfinger also co-founded ICQ, the technology known today as instant messaging.

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