This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 23, 2015

in seed money instead of $1.5M You should target 18 to 24 months of runway post Series Seed." You just wind up spending it faster--and moving fast with lots of money, especially for a first time founder, is bound to be more mistake-prone and less focused. I don''t think early stage investors are taking enough risk.

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Post-Money Valuation Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Seed Money 60

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Often, I find that there is a very distinct trade-off that surfaces when thinking about how to best position yourself for your series A: Option 1 is to focus nearly exclusively on some traction metric. For most companies, this means top-line revenue, but in some cases it’s more about numbers of active users or number of customers.

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Product Seed Stage Seed Money Metrics 28

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

If you’re a venture-backed tech company or even an early-stage business fueled by angel or seed money I assume you have a good group of board members or advisors who will give you time to be helpful and they want to be helpful. should we charge SaaS revenue, ad revenue or volumetric billing revenue?

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Advisory Board Valuation Stock Options Seed Money 337

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

There are a lot of people that artificially group together performance metrics for venture, and try to extrapolate successful stratagies from it. In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive. If you're a multi-stage investor, I get this.

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