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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. 2007 was the watershed year.

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

K9 Ventures

Obviously, both the founders and the note holders have the common objective of getting the company funded; but assuming the company is fundable, there is a basic misalignment of incentives when it comes to valuation. The typical fix for this problem is to put in a cap in the note for the pre-money price for conversion.