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Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

Feld Thoughts

In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As the risks below get eliminated the higher the valuation investors are prepared to pay. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

If you’re an early stage company, that number may be zero. They triage their deals – first worrying about liquidity of their late stage deals which have the highest valuations. In every major downturn inflated valuations disappear and the few VC’s still writing new checks find it’s a buyer’s market.

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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. Video 1 is here : Late stage valuations are in a mini bubble.

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Selecting Your Investors

OnlyOnce

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. If you’re fortunate enough to have built a really strong early stage company, you will find yourself in the position of being able to pick from a number of potential venture investors.

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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.