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OCTOBER 18, 2010

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Pre-Money Valuation 59

Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital Valuation Lean 59

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices. Liquidation preference is the amount of money that an investor gets paid before the common stock (e.g. It is 2010.

Venture Capital 289

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Common Stock Dividend 289

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When I pulled out the May 30, 2005 issue with Real Estate Gold Rush on the cover and posting the question "Inside the hot-money work of housing speculators, condo-flippers, and get-rich-quick schemers. Is Dropbox at an $8B private valuation worth 4X more than Box as a public company? Is it too late to get in?"

Las Vegas 28

Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. You can do whatever you want with money from consulting or friendsand family. Want to start a startup?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Ideally you want between two and four founders. Want to start a startup? Thatdepends.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Instead of “We are worth about $5m because we have done XYZ and we need to raise $1m, so let’s sell 20%&# it’s better to think about valuation as an output variable, like “Let’s raise $2mm and sell 33%, our (pre-money) valuation is therefore $4mm.&# For example, liquidation prefs.

Valuation 42

Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159