Marketing Partner Seed Money Valuation 
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
This has been an important year for us as a firm, as well as the market in general. There was a significant pull-back of the public markets in Q1. In other words, any correction in public valuations happened quickly and has now stabilized. But what kind of impact has this had on the private markets? Quantum Computing.
Rob Go
MARCH 10, 2012
My friend Jordan Cooper wrote an interesting post a few days ago about some of his predictions of the venture market in 2012. Really smart people end up writing thoughtful posts on the future of the venture market pretty much every year – and I often agree with many of them like I do Jordan’s. Valuation Discipline.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 1, 2010
and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). And then there is GRP Partners.
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
Hunch-driven : they had deep domain knowledge and didn't need outside studies or market research to guide their prioritization. million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Raising money, scaling the team. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Monetization.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 20, 2011
This is extra frustrating in an era in which all you read about is how frothy the VC / funding market is these days. People are raising in record times and with wacky valuations. Obviously the diagnosis can have many route causes: Sometimes it’s a question of a market that is less sexy than the current VC fad.
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