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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. If you look at the spreadsheet, you will see that the “Required Rate of Return” is expressed as an IRR.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

We thought that you’d be interested in our conversation. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers. examined 4 separate sources using a variety of return metrics. Kauffman found that their top performers are mostly small funds.

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