Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Josh Brooks, who ran marketing for MySpace for three years, is the founder of a company that lets users take photos form their phones, and then use those photos to send postcards in the real world to their friends and family. pre money valuation and planned to use the money to market the app.

Pre-Money Valuation 167

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 167

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. This isn’t a company yet, it’s an idea, and the founder could do a lot more on his own to validate product-market fit before raising capital. So the entrepreneur was willing to accept a valuation more than $10M lower than a previous valuation.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.   Most often, investors who are interested in a company raise this issue first to measure the company’s response to a market value offer. times at 5 years and 11.39

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. Probably the biggest change that I've noticed in the Valley is the transition from startups focusing on hardware, to startups built on software, and what that implies about the venture model as well. The question was, did anyone want it?

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The first 15,000 units sold out in six weeks in specialty retailers that distributed it in the Quantico area, and another 80,000 are being made now. It isn’t the formulation that is the barrier to entry, but rather the marketing positioning of an energy drink designed by, and made for Marines Special Forces.

Pre-Money Valuation 166

Pre-Money Valuation Alabama Valuation Churn Rate 166

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. 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. After all?—?we

Valuation 324

Valuation Post-Money Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder 324

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. This implies a pre money valuation of $1.045M. See my breakdown of week 2 for more on how to calculate pre money valuation.). Freaker USA.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

You don't want the "average" fund, because average funds don't do well--just like you don't want to model the average startup, because you might as well draw a big flaming hole in the ground. You're putting money in over the first 3-4 years, but you're not really seeing most of it back until years 7, 8, and 9, if not longer.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IRR Valuation 60

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Diversification across industry sectors is not as easily achieved for angels as could be accomplished in public markets, but can be achieved by co-investing with trusted angel colleagues in a broader set of businesses. Pre-money valuation varies with the economy and with the competitive environment for startup ventures within a region.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Current “market” stats actually show about 50% of deals being done with participating preferred and 50% with non-participating preferred. Therefore, the new Series C investor would own 25% of the company post money ($4mm/($12mm + $4mm)). . ($10 million balance to distribute to all shareholders prorata.

Liquidation Preference 49

Liquidation Preference LP Preferred Stock Liquidity Event 49