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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Subscribe to Entrepreneur RSS.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. No wonder the platform is rumored to be raising a round at a $150 million valuation or more. → Learn More.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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How long will the “seed stage bubble” last?

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You can also subscribe by RSS or email below, and youll get updates when things start back up again. How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? My theory is, we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. Make sure you own your IP.