David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. The reverse also holds: a Value investment can become Momentum, and then follow with a down round.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I raised my A round at a $31.5 It was early 2000. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. That was market.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22