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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. It was a $4.7M

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Could you answer these tough investor questions?

Berkonomics

If you are an investor in an early stage venture, wouldn’t a dialog using these questions help greatly in defining and perhaps reducing your risk? Valuation and fund-raising : How did you arrive at your proposed pre-money valuation? And isn’t it worth the effort for your own good as you build for success?

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. An average of these ranges results in a pre-money valuation of about $4MM.   If similarly situated companies are seeing $3.5MM pre-money valuations, this might become the target valuation.