VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Many startups that raised money in 2021 on inflated valuations that were detached from their actual value, are struggling to raise up-rounds and face difficult choices these days: down rounds, early sellout or failing altogether. A good way to think about valuation in seed/pre-seed is to reverse engineer the next round.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. And I said, I think it’s going to be a down round, because people are scared. Not that we should have more committees.
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Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. And I said, I think it’s going to be a down round, because people are scared. Not that we should have more committees.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. 6 ]Ive omitted one source: government grants.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Alexia Tsotsis: It’s grassroots versus trickle-down. Marc Andreessen: Versus trickle-down. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing down rounds because the NASDAQ is down?
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