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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

We’ve received numerous constructive comments, both privately and on social media, from attorneys, VCs, and CEOs who are well aware of the problem (including several who are experiencing it in real time). This is a fundamental issue that does, indeed, boil down to understanding the post-money valuation of a company.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Startup courses from Udemy , a crowdsourced platform for learning: Learn how to raise money for your startup : The most popular course on Udemy, gathering advice from 7 founder CEOs including Naval (founder of AngelList), Dave McLure (founder of 500 Startups) and others. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. Photo credit: D. I just re-read it and on second reflection, I’m surprised just how much I found myself in near TOTAL agreement with Paul.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

Your customer is growing up on social media. That means if you’re taking money with a $5M post-money valuation, the expectation is that you are building for a minimum $50M exit. $10M 10M post-money valuation = $100M target. 500M valuation = $5B target. Getting social right is hard.

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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

to fund the company at a $6M post money valuation from a number of investors including Selena Gomez. Despite having over 500k downloads and making $450k in revenue over the last 21 months, he had only $185k left in the bank, which meant that he would be out of business in 90 days if he didn’t raise more money.