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6 reasons why Latin American valuations are lagging behind Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Latin American startups haven’t had the same valuations as Silicon Valley startups. This frustrates many Latin American entrepreneurs seeking investment, as they don’t understand why Latin American VCs aren’t doing deals at Silicon Valley valuations. VCs need to make returns, or they’ll be out of business.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

Seed and pre-Seed investment levels and valuations remain healthy, there’s more talent in the market and less competition. The result is mass layoffs (over 119,000 in the US since the beginning of 2023 and it’s only Feb), down rounds (even for Silicon Valley darlings like Stripe) and fund terms that go above the 2/20 standard.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As an early-stage company that just closed our seed round at $8.1 That includes us.

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Entrepreneurs Court New Super-Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Every early-stage startup should explore this new funding alternative. Examples of some leaders in this space include Mike Maples in Silicon Valley and David S. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. Rose in NYC, who each make up to ten investments a year of up to $250,000.

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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set.

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