Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
I wrote this because over the last decade I’ve seen a destructive cycle where otherwise interesting companies have been screwed by raising too much money at too high of prices and gotten caught in a trap when the markets correct and they got ahead of themselves. Again, prices are expressed as pre-money valuations.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
By definition?—?I’m I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. The market definition has changed but what we do mostly hasn’t. Are we in a bubble?”
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. The result of these new market trends of Prorata Takers, Corporate Investors & Public Market Entrant has led to a sharp spike in the valuations of late-stage financings.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 23, 2010
What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). You definitely notice the people who are engaged with your content and you can’t help but click on the link of their name to see just who they are. It’s true. Engagement. No, really.
Austin Startup
JUNE 21, 2018
Our pre-money valuation for the seed round is 2 trillion dollars.” This isn’t cheap to do, but going to prison is definitely more expensive. We see a lot of crypto start-up ideas that go something like this: “We’d like to put bananas on the block chain and trade them with utility tokens. You bet it is!
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Using NextView as an example, since we both seek to lead the seed round and only lead during this round, I’ve seen this trend manifest in one of two ways: In a priced round, the entrepreneur will often share their valuation ask (or a stated floor) for the pre-money valuation of their company much sooner in the process.
Genuine VC
JULY 30, 2012
By communicating pricing expectations with potential lead investors, I mean sharing either an “ask” or even stated floor for the pre-money valuation of the company (with a priced preferred round) or explicitly stating a valuation cap (for convertible note round). But, also by definition, that just can’t be the case.
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