Cofounder Dilution Pre-Money Valuation Startup 
Altgate
DECEMBER 15, 2010
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 24, 2013
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. ” Ideaspotting investment pre-money valuation valuation Worthworm'
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Gust
APRIL 11, 2014
Let’s get right down to business: Dilution of founders’ and other early shareholders’ equity in startups is frequently a subject of intense interest and debate. That’s the concept of what some call mathematical dilution. The simplest illustration is the first VC funding round of a new startup.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. We had people hearing through the grapevine that we were about to raise money and new investors started calling us to get in on the deal.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2015
Over the years I’ve written extensively about the downsides of convertible notes for startups such as here , here and here. In the old days VCs funded off of a “pre-money” valuation. Pre-money ($8m) + investment ($2m) = Post-money ($10m) and the investors now own 20% of your company $2m / $10m.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you. Of course, unlike cars there is no direct comparison across each startup so these are just some general guidelines to try and even the information field.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Want to start a startup? 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. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.
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