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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. So there is a bias to focus on pricing in the seed. (For

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. . - Low barrier to entry.

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

Like any economic transaction, the pricing of a startup’s seed round ultimately depends on the equation of perceived supply (the quality of the team, product, & market) and demand (how many competitive alternatives there are to any one given funder, including non-consumption).

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

In the end, Plated was able to use the domain to prove out its minimal viable product for a nominal amount of cash, raise capital, and purchase the domain in full. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

In the end, Plated was able to use the domain to prove out its minimal viable product for a nominal amount of cash, raise capital, and purchase the domain in full. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. Bryce Roberts, Indie VC Founder, has stated “on average, the companies we’ve backed have increased revenues over 100% in the first 12 months of the program and around 300% after 24 months post-investment. 20% initial ownership.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc.