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Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders | @altgate

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@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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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Again, prices are expressed as pre-money valuations.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

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These anticipated outcomes were validated by “ Returns to Angels in Groups ” by Professor Rob Wiltbank in November 2007. This method compares the target company to typical angel-funded startup ventures and adjusts the average valuation of recently funded companies in the region to establish a pre-money valuation of the target.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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More on Liquidation Preferences

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@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Where Do Tech VCs Invest? But first, let’s look at pre-money valuation by liquidation preference.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. 2007 was the watershed year. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007.

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