Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Further, you demonstrate on your spreadsheet that a venture return to early investors is plausible at a valuation that gives you enough equity to get the job done and to take care of you and your team at exit time. But, the manner in which you get paid can swing your valuation considerably.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). It actually wasn’t the point of my post – my point was just to get people thinking about the issues of size and age in the first place.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. If we can’t agree on price I tell entrepreneurs that they can raise money and say “GRP will speak for half of the round.&# Done – the only signal is positive.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

Really smart people end up writing thoughtful posts on the future of the venture market pretty much every year – and I often agree with many of them like I do Jordan’s. Valuation Discipline. We have a pretty strong sense of what realistic valuation ranges are and aren’t for seed stage companies.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2011

He’s struggling to raise money. People are raising in record times and with wacky valuations. Joking aside, I wish more VCs would humbly, politely and respectfully tell people when this is the case. But I tell people up front when I think the idea won’t work, the team is wrong or the strategy is off base.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

If you’re a venture-backed tech company or even an early-stage business fueled by angel or seed money I assume you have a good group of board members or advisors who will give you time to be helpful and they want to be helpful. Deal with company admin: 409a valuations, approve stock options, vote on key measures (15%).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario. Sure – it happens.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

There are a lot of people that artificially group together performance metrics for venture, and try to extrapolate successful stratagies from it. I know, because those people all used to pitch me as an institutional LP back in the day. If you're doing seed deals, how often does a down round in a seed deal even happen?

Later Stage 99

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. But the convertible cap has increasingly been used as a guide for valuation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

Design 48

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

Design 48

Design Cofounder Silicon Valley Seed Money 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

Design 48

Design Cofounder Silicon Valley Seed Money 48

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Many people in the ecosystem simply see no downside to that. You may never hear about these deaths, and their teams will get rapidly reabsorbed back into the system that’s still very hungry for talent and still seeding tons of new deals. By the math in that ATD post, each incubator grad only employs about three people on average.

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