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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I told Ethan on the spot that I wanted to be the lead investor in his new company. And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We like to be able to see the concept.

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A framework to think about pricing seed, angel, and venture capital rounds

This is going to be BIG.

2) Supply and demand of capital willing to invest in your company. That means investors are going to buy that much of your company at a time. It means lead investors can get to 10, 15 or 20% ownership depending on whatever math they have that makes their own success model work. It's a function of a few things.

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

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“The last thing you wanted was any more VCs like that,” says Coats, who began thinking that what lead VCs and entrepreneurs really want was additional venture investors whose participation would be less complicated—more like a co-investor—and who could decide on joining in a deal in a week or two. Xconomy on Demand.

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The Right Way To Get Funding From Family And Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

On the positive side, friends and family probably won’t be as demanding on your financial projections as a professional investor, and they likely will be satisfied with an initial offer of a convertible note (loan with option to convert to equity later), so you don’t have to give away the store before you get started.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

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.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors.

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