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Valuations 101: The Dave Berkus Method

Gust

We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. Dave’s valuation model first appeared in a book published by Harvard’s Howard Stevenson in the middle nineties. Add to Pre-money Valuation.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

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Founders Should Set Aside More Equity for Their Team & “Split the Pain” With Investors

Hunter Walker

Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. No one wants to run out of equity pool midway between financings (and larger seed rounds these days usually means more hiring pre-A)!

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Gust

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? Goodwill can easily account for a couple of million in valuation.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a $4.7M The rest, as they say, is history. A lot has changed.