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Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

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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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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. I rarely only read the post.