Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. He also said they typically only invest at a $1 million pre-money valuation or less. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Equity Finance Pre-Money Valuation Denver 137

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. Within three months, we easily obtained $3 million of investment at a pre-money valuation of $30 million.

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Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Sales Valuation 59

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? So they will give you a pre-money valuation somewhere around the amount you raise. How much money should I take? Founders and VPs usually have about 10% and employees have about 15%.

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Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When will the company run out of money if the development of the enterprise is at a slower rate than expected? How much skin do you and your fellow founders have in the game ? Valuation and fund-raising : How did you arrive at your proposed pre-money valuation? Order all 3 Berkonomics books for $49.95,a

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

So the venture process was all about trying to figure out whether or not people could deliver what they said they could, and you typically invested as early as possible at a $5 million pre-money valuation, hoping the company would be worth $500 million, in which case you'd make 20 to 30 times your money.

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