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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. And what used to be a seed round a decade ago is now a pre-seed round. Pre-seed Round of Funding. Number of employees? Seed Round of Funding.

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Startup Resources

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Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Seed Stage Valuation Guide.