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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

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Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. Some folks feel you always should, some feel it’s a waste of time and you never should.

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There Is No Subprime Model for VC

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Neither of these models is brand new, but they have emerged more distinctly in the last 5-7 years meaning there’s now realized returns to support the attractiveness of these seed or late-stage models in addition to the “traditional” own 20% early stage model.

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Why VC’s Don’t “Crossover” Invest

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Why wouldn’t Fund IV invest at this stage? Well at this juncture Startup X’s valuation is presumably a lot higher than it was at the Series A, maybe even 5-10x+ higher. For example Acme III might be willing to invest in a Series B or C stage company in Year 4 of the fund (e.g. beginning of the investment period).

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Source, Select, Win ? AGILEVC

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There are more similarities with early-stage VC than public investing, but in these asset classes you still see somewhat more uniform access to investment opportunities and less information asymmetry. Also these are typically more mature assets that can be analyzed and understood in broader ways than a de novo startup.