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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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I don’t feel that as a VC sneaking in nefarious terms into a term sheet that the entrepreneur doesn’t understand is a good way to build a long-term relationship nor to build a long-term reputation but this does happen and more frequently than we all would like.

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

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Historically they have been a kind of back-door way for a company to go public, and as a result have historically had a sub-standard reputation. It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. And if so, how actively?

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