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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. Ok, let’s jump in.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. Ok, let’s jump in.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a $4.7M Read More ».

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. Ok, let’s jump in.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.