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Investing Notes From The Inaugural Pre-Seed Summit

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Let’s pause here and take stock of the stats, which are incredible: According to Pitchbook , the current median deal size for a seed deal is $2.2M with a median post-money valuation of $10.7M — these are the highest Pitchbook has recorded. This was interesting to me.

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How to Be an Angel Investor

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2 ] When you negotiate terms with a startup, there are two numbers youcare about: how much money youre putting in, and the valuation ofthe company. The valuation determines how much stock you get. Ifyou put $50,000 into a company at a pre-money valuation of $1million, then the post-money valuation is $1.05