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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

This was my time at a Wall Street firm that had hired me after I applied for their Junior Stockbroker position, a little while after I graduated from college. Having just moved to Austin from Boston, she thought adding African car sales could help, maybe thinking Africans looking for used cars can use it to find car deals.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Newsletters.

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Cap Table Clean Up

ithacaVC

The share price is calculated by taking the pre-money valuation and dividing it by the number of shares outstanding pre-money. So Share Price (SP) = Pre-Money Valuation (PMV) / Shares Outstanding (SO). On a fully diluted pre-money basis, that would mean the option pool represents 14.5% (356,758/2,456,758) of the cap table.

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What to expect before accepting the offer to become Engineer #1 at a startup

The Next Web

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Startup employees are granted common shares out of something called an option pool. Overlooked here is the valuation of the specific startup along its growth trajectory. Converting percents to cents (and dollars).

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In VC deals, Price Doesn't Matter - But The "Promote" Does

Seeing Both Sides

Entrepreneurs often mistakenly focus solely on the pre-money valuation while VCs look at multiple knobs in the negotiation to drive to a set of terms that, in total, they find acceptable. The first, and most focused on, is something called the pre-money valuation. Another term that impacts the price is the size of the option pool.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. She is a model for us all!