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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

A-Rounds used to be $3–7 million with the best companies able to skip this smaller amount and raise $10 million on a $40 million pre-money valuation (20% dilution). These days $10 million is quaint for the best A-Rounds and many are raising $20 million at $60–80 million pre-money valuations (or greater).

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Vulture Capital: Why Early Stage VC Could Kill Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

To cultivate that strong culture, it is important to slowly and purposefully build out your core leadership team and to take a steady, sustainable approach to employee growth. In an industry known for its high turnover, a strong and differentiated company culture can help attract and retain talent. It certainly was for us.

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Startups Should Revolve Around Their Founders if They Want to Succeed Big

Andrew Payne

From a statistical analysis of over 6,000 startups, the paper (and article) argue (roughly) that founders with board control, the CEO position, or both, can “harm the firm’s prospects, reducing pre-money valuation by up to 22%.” ” Really? These five alone companies represent $1.5

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Twitter Link Roundup #176 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Q1 Venture Capital Spending & Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet – [link]. ” – [link].

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

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.