View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for you and your team to apply. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. We’re upping our offering from $200K to $400K and raising the valuation cap upon acceptance into the program.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In 2017, venture capital made a total of $148 billion in startup investments, with 40 VC-backed companies achieving valuations of $1 billion or more, qualifying for the unicorn club. Here’s a good cheat sheet on how startup valuation works. The stats are now looking better, and even venture capitalists are more prepared to take risks.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

No wonder the platform is rumored to be raising a round at a $150 million valuation or more. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Did we miss some great companies in places like Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver and so on? Some of these are generalizable and our friend Semil Shah does a nice job covering several in his post “ Investing Outside the Bay Area.” Yes we did! Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017).

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. Kirk flew back to Seattle that night, and we were each left on our own to respond to the company’s offer. Model 3: Industry Standards Comparison Lastly, I looked at some industry standard charts like these.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

Now that everyone is overly focused on unicorns, the headline number on the valuation (e.g. Company X raised Y at a valuation of Z from A, B, and C) has crept into the story on big rounds. I don’t know if it’s because Danielle is in the bay area (while Rand is in Seattle), or the story has broadened.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. While it may seem like a tough question to answer, I would argue that most practitioners of valuation analysis would state “not very high.” It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2011

An Inside Look at BigDoor’s Venture Funding is going to be me, Keith Smith ( BigDoor CEO), and Andy Sack ( Lighter Capital , Founder’s Co-op , and the TechStars Seattle Managing Director). Both are good friends of mine and have really interesting philosophies about startup funding.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Seattle, USA. He is a respected expert in the industry with particular expertise in due diligence, online business valuation and strategic exit planning. CMW features four full days of workshops and presentations from content professionals at industry titans like LinkedIn, Adobe, Shopify, and Pinterest.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We will leverage the standard YC post-money SAFE document with a valuation cap, no discount , and a pro-rata side letter. We will leverage the standard YC post-money SAFE document with a valuation cap and no discount. At NextView, we pride ourselves on the clarity and simplicity of our deal. The Programming.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. Perhaps – who knows?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Another concept we need to introduce now is valuation. I say "in theory" because in early stageinvesting, valuations are voodoo. As a company gets more established,its valuation gets closer to an actual market value. As a company gets more established,its valuation gets closer to an actual market value. Better how?

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. If you get an offer from a reputablefirm at a reasonable valuation with no unusually onerous terms,just take it and get on with building the company. [ 8 ]Some VCs will offer you an artificially low valuation to seeif you have the balls to ask for more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. A market trend in the VC and Angel world where valuations seem to have come a little unhinged compared to valuations in the past. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. The Startup Visa movement.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Last weekend at Seattle MindCamp we had a session on this topic of “How to divide co-founder equity” and we did talk about there being too much emphasis on what was done in the past and not enough about what is actually going to get done. already some initial funding does the company already have a valuation?

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Having an unrealistic valuation. While one of my favorite phrases is “valuation is like beauty; in the eye of the beholder,” you need to have a realistic sense of how the investment community might value your company. Examples of unrealistic valuation mistakes are evident weekly on the aforementioned “Shark Tank.”

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Professor VC

JULY 16, 2012

Interesting enough, it was an entrepreneur (John Nordstrom) who was able to get out of town with his gold and opened a little shoe store in Seattle. Median pre-money valuation of $2.5 This got me thinking about the "suckers bet" of angel investing and how most don't strike gold for a variety of reasons.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And they just announced a new round of funding; $300 million from Salesforce Ventures, pegging the company’s post-funding valuation at over three-billion dollars. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. So what’s changed?

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Posted by: Steve Weir | February 19, 2010 1:44 PM Awesome article!! Very inspiring. Posted by: Andrew Mager | February 19, 2010 2:45 PM Thanks Matt for sharing this insight.

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