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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmannā€™s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. Yes, that’s 25% of Zynga revenues for 2011 — which, as huge as that sounds, indeed is what I hear through the grapevine Zynga spends on player acquisition/retention. Facebook, Inc.

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