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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad?

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Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders | @altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. What is some of the critical metrics that matter? Not all startups need outside investment to grow. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008. Where Do You Fit?

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? million), but certainly also allowing the investor to put much lower values into each test, resulting in valuations well below that amount. The Method should allow for this.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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

Gust

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.