David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC offers you this.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
For startup founders and CEO’s it’s also just as common to see them place too much focus on the amount of money raised, and the pre-money valuation, rather than the value that each investor can bring to the table. Do you have relationships with other investors at the next stage of the investment lifecycle?
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View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . Normally I would counsel seed stage companies not to take strategic investment but that wasn’t the case here.
www.seriesseed.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
Sets the valuation at the time of the investment. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. At this stage the company is just a bet.
www.currentlyobsessed.com
MAY 28, 2010
Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. It hardly deserves any attention at all in the early stages. Or is it?
grasshopperherder.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Valuations. If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. I was approached with one sweat equity offer that placed the valuation of the company at >$5 million pre-money and before even a seed round of funding. If you think I’m wrong, awesome.
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