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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. I turned them down. They were nonplussed.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others. Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Mobile Marketing Comes of Age: Retailers finally began to see the promise of location based applications and consumers changed their shopping behavior using their mobile devices. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

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The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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