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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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APRIL 5, 2016
Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. Likewise, true grit is defined by so much more than company growth and valuations. She is looking for more than that. .
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DECEMBER 6, 2018
It’s almost exactly 5 years since Aileen Lee first coined the term “unicorn” in reference to startups with $1 billion+ valuations. A few of these had previously raised private rounds at $1B+ valuations like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but a good majority of them only reached unicorn status upon exit. valuation in 2017 round).
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MARCH 24, 2015
These are private sales of a minority position in these companies, not IPOs or acquisitions. There is a shocking disconnect between public market valuations and private market valuations. In particular, I feel a few things really strongly: 1. $1 1 billion private financings do not equate $1 billion of company value.
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JUNE 11, 2019
I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). This can be helpful for businesses that have long sales cycles, ones that are in unpopular market segments, or are located in geographies without ample downstream series A capital.
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APRIL 30, 2015
In many instances, you raise an institutional round to either fulfill a product strategy or go-to-market strategy or you’re increasing sales and marketing hires, so you have better visibility into what needs to happen in the next six, 12, 18 months. Reason being, there’s more of a defined strategy for the company.
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Something standard like a SaaS company where the exits scenarios and valuations are well-understood may not need a slide here, but the more non-traditional or unique the venture is, the more information which a Founder can fill in the blanks of “what could be” are helpful. Other Questions: Every startup is different.
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