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OCTOBER 18, 2010

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Pre-Money Valuation 59

Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital Valuation Lean 59

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

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Today, the method as explained, adds $500,000 in value for each of the following risk-reduction elements: Note that these numbers are maximums that can be “earned” to form a valuation, allowing for a pre-revenue valuation of up to $2 million (or a post roll-out value of up to $2.5

Valuation 48

Valuation North Carolina Oklahoma City Silicon Valley 48

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. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010.

Venture Capital 289

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Common Stock Dividend 289

Professor VC

JULY 16, 2012

Earlier this year, I left Sand Hill Angels , the angel group I was actively involved with since 2005. Median pre-money valuation of $2.5 Interesting enough, it was an entrepreneur (John Nordstrom) who was able to get out of town with his gold and opened a little shoe store in Seattle.

Angel Groups 36

Angel Groups Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Alaska 36

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. In 2008, I made an investment offer of $250K for approximately 38% of the company ($400,000 pre-money valuation).

Las Vegas 28

Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

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.&# Future value is key.

Valuation 42

Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

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. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

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. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money. Want to start a startup?

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105