Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2017

Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. No one wants to run out of equity pool midway between financings (and larger seed rounds these days usually means more hiring pre-A)!

Equity 94

Equity Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Founder 94

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a $4.7M The rest, as they say, is history. A lot has changed.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

When companies seeking their first round of serious funding are good enough to receive a term-sheet from an investor, the first issue that always arises is valuation.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68