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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.

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

However, sharing valuation expectations too early can communicate that the search for investors is largely about price, not about finding a good partner for the business moving forward. Of course, as a funding conversation progresses from an initial to subsequent meetings, the topic of round structure and pricing become much more natural.

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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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