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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment).

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Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 Edition)

VC Cafe

Rising inflation and interest rate hikes, growth in debt to GDP ration, the war in the Ukraine (and global instability), increases in prices of energy, changing consumer habits to a post Covid-19, supply chain issues, etc, might be all contributing factors to the stock market (and tech in particular) declines. Down rounds are coming.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. Valuations. We think global from the outset. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name! We have to.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Investors had grown too used to the idea that any deal you funded would get marked up to a higher valuation in the next round and that’s clearly not always true. Mutual funds had begun marking down the valuations of their private investments in high-profile deals. Fall turned to winter. 2015 turned to 2016. FOMO was NOMO.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.