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Web-Based Worthworm Helps Determine PMV For Startup Investment Purposes

YoungUpstarts

One of the challenges for investing in startups has always been the lack of an established way for founders and investors to actually measure and decide on the valuation of the startup concerned. “If you are an angel investor and a venture is seeking capital from you, insist on getting its Worthworm report.

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Users Guide to Startup Advisors

Gust

What’s an advisor to a startup deal? Advisors with options or equity should be long-term people who will stay with the company from startup to exit. Nobody should ever be on the capital table for what they did once in the past. Free web design forever? Why is the web designer not a regular team member.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

There is nothing wrong with using a SAFE or a convertible note in a startup if you know its implications. The bottom line: Startup CEOs/Founders need to do the projected capitalization table math on an as-converted, post-money basis from Day 1, before issuing any notes and modeling various possible future scenarios.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Of the 21 investments that Correlation Ventures has made so far, four are in life sciences startups and 17 are in technology, or consumer products and services. View More in Life Sciences ›. The Skqueak That Roars: New App Combines Drawing, Audio, Images. View More in Mobile ›. Dont despair….