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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

They’ll therefore systematically seek to invest in startups at the lowest cost-basis possible. However, working against founders when they share pricing expectations too early is the fact that the search for investors becomes largely about price, not about finding a good partner for the business moving forward.

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

This handful of people is extremely and unabashedly cheap, as they’re fully self-aware of their role within the funding ecosystem and are accordingly systematically seeking to invest in startups at the lowest cost-basis possible. Also, if executed effectively, it can also set a positive direct tone towards all proceeding discussions.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. A simple tactic would be to employ an automated process to collect traffic data for domain names corresponding to each of the 100,000 most used English words or search terms.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. A simple tactic would be to employ an automated process to collect traffic data for domain names corresponding to each of the 100,000 most used English words or search terms.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks". You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts.