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 Engineer + Pre-Money Valuation
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | VENTUREHACKS.COM OCTOBER 21, 2010  The Option Pool Shuffle Use a hiring plan to justify a small option pool, increase your share price, and increase your effective valuation. Don’t lose this game. | WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM APRIL 28, 2010 How to Be an Angel Investor You give a startup money and they give you stock. Youllprobably get either preferred stock, which means stock with extrarights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertibledebt, which means (on paper) youre lending the company money, andthe debt converts to stock at the next sufficiently big fundinground. | WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM APRIL 28, 2010 How to Fund a Startup typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. | | | | | | | |
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500 HATS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010  Fire in The Valley, Fire in My Belly. and Yes, Mike, I Have.
Startonomics SF 2008) Startup Metrics: Sample User Conversion Dashboard Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money. just focus on the important stuff (build product, solve problems, get customers, make money. Noise. MORE >> -
WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010 How to Start a Startup
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The way a startup makes money is to offer people bettertechnology than they have now. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. This money isnt revenue. Well, no. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011  On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine
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). MORE >> -
READWRITESTART | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010  Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation
Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. 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. Sub-$2 million pre- money, it is better to bootstrap. MORE >> -
THESTARTUPLAWYER.COM | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010 Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer
Because now you have more to lose than just a company and your (or someone else’s) money. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. MORE >>
- Startup Blog: 7 Questions You May Get from Potential Investors TAFFY WILLIAMS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011
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