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Shark Tank Season 4 week 10 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

They had three stages to their plan. The first was to franchise their model, selling a captain a $35,000 boat and a business plan to replicate Corks Away for $175,000. The second, which they quickly backed away from, was to build out their Pesto Torte appetizer into a consumer packaged goods food business.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

An average of these ranges results in a pre-money valuation of about $4MM.   If similarly situated companies are seeing $3.5MM pre-money valuations, this might become the target valuation. An average of these ranges results in a pre-money valuation of about $4MM.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

Gust

This method compares the target company to typical angel-funded startup ventures and adjusts the average valuation of recently funded companies in the region to establish a pre-money valuation of the target. In most regions, the pre-money valuation does not vary significantly from one business sector to another.

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