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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | SOCAL CTO FEBRUARY 2, 2011 How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation. Not sure why. | WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM APRIL 28, 2010 How to Fund a Startup typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. | | | | | |
| WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM OCTOBER 23, 2010 How to Start a Startup You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The way a startup makes money is to offer people bettertechnology than they have now. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. This money isnt revenue. Well, no. | | THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 To Follow On or Not to Follow On In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive. That's why I constantly remind companies that when you do an outsized financing price or size-wise, you expose yourself to getting hit bad in a downtown unless you're conservative about how you use the money. | |
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