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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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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. It was a $4.7M The rest, as they say, is history. link] Terence Donnelly.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

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Instead of “We are worth about $5m because we have done XYZ and we need to raise $1m, so let’s sell 20%&# it’s better to think about valuation as an output variable, like “Let’s raise $2mm and sell 33%, our (pre-money) valuation is therefore $4mm.&# Future value is key.