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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). May 26, 2011.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

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I have to admit, the light bulb didn’t go off for me until I was negotiating term sheets. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks). Read up on the “unwritten terms&# in term sheets having to do with exit multiples here For bootstrappers, the math is even easier: 100% of the upside goes to you and your awesome team.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. All of these are false. Even Sequoia.

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