Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# 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. New investors hate down rounds.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

To do that you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. Myth #3: Take the Highest Valuation You Can Get. We’ve heard it all before.

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Finance Silicon Valley Valuation Startup 205

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The survey looks at the valuations and the terms of financing for over 100 technology companies in Silicon Valley that reported raising capital in the third quarter of this year. And not surprisingly, perhaps, the survey found that valuations are up. The full survey can be downloaded here.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Down Round 115

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

This includes calling current and prospective customers, understanding technology and manufacturing, doing reference calls on the founders and key executives, verifying financial and legal information and often other items specific to the company. In the real world, he would make those calls BEFORE investing, not after.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Everyone moved to earlier stage – part of the decline in late stage investing is the ‘baggage’ of companies that previously raised money at inflated valuations that they would struggle to justify in today’s market. The post How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024 appeared first on VC Cafe.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system. Median pre-money valuations skyrocketed – shooting up 3x in just three years as investors competed to christen imaginary animals with imaginary valuations. So what happened?

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LP Valuation Burn Rate Pre-Money Valuation 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Much has changed in the past four months of the technology startup world and how outsiders value the business. As we noted in our survey of more than 150 VCs we know in the industry, many saw drops in Q4 valuations last year with nearly all of them projecting decreases in 2016. Down rounds are corrosive. Start early.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. 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.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. 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.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. 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.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

In order to launch a successful business and raise the capital needed to do so, a startup needs to consider several aspects of the business including the management team , the size of the opportunity, the product/service/technology, the market/sales/distribution channels, the competitive environment and several other factors.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

That’s the case for most companies that are already in the market, especially if they raised funding at imaginary valuations before. Dealroom global tech report ( source ) As a result, 2023 has also seen a 43% decline in mega rounds of over $100M, though they still exist. In many ways, Edward is right.

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Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 171

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years! Mostly, no.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice. Another concept we need to introduce now is valuation. I say "in theory" because in early stageinvesting, valuations are voodoo. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Six firms had expressed strong interest, two had strong champions already trying to test price and round size and one had made it clear they were planning to submit a term sheet the following week. Below is a graph of the NASDAQ the US public barometer of technology companies. But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive. That wasn't a bubble bursting issue--that was a poor financing strategy issue of people getting caught with their pants down, hands in the cookie jar, and all the metaphors you can think of at once.

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Later Stage Down Round Pre-Money Valuation Early Stage 99

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Great technology firms were built during the last dry period and we saw the huge wealth creation of Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and others. 25% “down rounds? Boom and bust.

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