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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). Ok, I get a lot of these.

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

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. 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. The Valuation Question. Let’s start at the end.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. Uber took the shockingly low valuation of $4m when raising it’s first $1.5m. 3m valuation. Less than a $2m valuation for their seed round. 20% of your company for $500k was the norm. The market was back!

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1) » 02/25/2010. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. Sets the valuation at the time of the investment. Posted by: Ted Wang | 03/01/2010 at 10:45 PM. Posted by: Yokum | 03/01/2010 at 11:30 PM. Posted by: Walt | 03/02/2010 at 02:43 AM. Blog Archives.

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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?

Both Sides of the Table

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” In the old days VCs funded off of a “pre-money” valuation. About 4 years ago I started pricing all of my deals as a function of “post money valuation.”

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. All Rights Reserved.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. All Rights Reserved.