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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m The iPhone was released.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). I pick my topics to answer and they’re ones that I know better than most having worked at Fox through all of our growth years and building out this large advertising network. No, really.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies. As noted above, most investors find most of their best investments through recommendations from people in their network, and that network now includes…you!

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

Again, I see nothing wrong with this, although entrepreneurs often prefer convertible debt as it defers the valuation discussion and leaves the Series A price for the venture firm to set. He also said they typically only invest at a $1 million pre-money valuation or less. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

Feld Thoughts

Jane and Dick worked together at Denver Health, the nation’s “most wired” hospital according to Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine. Through a series of conversations, Jane and Dick have come up with the idea to develop a social network tailored to the medical community.

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Fear vs. Greed at Facebook

Altgate

To estimate how much the founders and other insiders owned after each of the startup’s first three rounds of financing, we used the two major factors that affect dilution: the capital raised by the startup and the pre-money valuation it received. million, with a valuation of $10 million. As shown in Figure 9.5