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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner I’m thrilled to announce: Nick Kim. But rest assured valuations get reset. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Technical Review Pre-Money Valuation San Francisco Valuation 416

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JUNE 30, 2016

conversation literally every week with startups. So the temptation would be to ask for $5 million because that implies a $20 million pre-money valuation if you’re able to only give away 20% or a $15 million pre-money valuation of investors require 25%. I have this “How much should I raise?”

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Early Stage Startup 292

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JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. 2007 was the watershed year.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. We three partners are working hard. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. It was a $4.7M

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2018

Our pre-money valuation for the seed round is 2 trillion dollars.” The second rule of crypto start ups is due to a government body that was created as an indirect result of Ronald Coase and his pioneering work on transaction costs: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). By: Joe Merrill, Partner at Sputnik ATX.

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Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Pre-Money Valuation Security 61

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301