The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.
View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
What Are Your Valuation Expectations? But mainly we did it because these corporate VCs were among the only groups willing to invest at PayPal’s somewhat inflated post-money valuation, during the middle of the dot-com crash when traditional VCs pulled back sharply and other sources of funding were constrained.” ” (Rob Go).
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Gust
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
For a traditional VC financing round structured as a sale of preferred stock, the best resources I can recommend are the Term Sheet Series by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson and Startup Company Lawyer by Yokum Taku. Knowledge is power. Every installment or post in those series is a good read, and I won’t attempt to reinvent the wheel here.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2013
The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Product Development. Founding Team, Key Hires, Advisory Board. Market Validation.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Angel investors don’t expect to get repaid, nor do they really want to get repaid; the return on their investment, if the startup proves a success, will come in conversion to equity followed by an eventual liquidity event (sale or IPO of the company), with a return of at least 5x or 10x the initial investment if all goes well.
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation. Be sure to budget a small amount ($2,500 – $5,000) of your FFF capital to ensure that you legally setup your firm.
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Translation?
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