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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. Over time some “norms&# have emerged in pricing based on investors risk / return profile.

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups. Startup Equity for Early Employees. If the company is pre-funding or only has a small friends-and-family seed round, then the numbers should go up from there, based on expected dilution and greater risk.” 8 and 2.5%

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

By deciding to use a consulting CTO on a temporary basis, you avoid getting stalled in the earliest stages. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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VC Board Management Best Practices: 5 Early Warning Signs of Trouble

Pascal's View

The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia. Among the reasons for the differences of approach to managing CEO change among venture investors is that early-stage players often forge a strong personal, as well as business relationship, with the CEO.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Sometimes angels deal terms are as fearsome as VCs.Other angels, particularly in the earliest stages, will invest basedon a two-page agreement. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want? Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages.