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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

Sharing these pricing expectations early with potential lead investors fundamentally qualifies your conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner, or else it can reduce options to maximize your fundraise outcome. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

Sharing these expectations early in potential lead investor discussions fundamentally qualifies the conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner or reducing options to maximize a financing process outcome. It’s like opening a job interview by sharing salary requirements.

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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

YoungUpstarts

Initial conversations (known in the industry as “fireside chats”) may take place to generate interest with a select group of potential buyers. What constitutes the best potential partner to work with? It can be very lucrative to partner with private equity. Can you partner with and respect them for the next three to seven years?

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time. on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company.