Remove Metrics Remove Pre-Money Valuation Remove Revenue Remove Seed Money
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Why the New Seed Might Be a Bad Seed

This is going to be BIG.

So whereas seed rounds five years ago may have been less than a million dollars on a pre-money valuation of three or four million, today''s seed is up and over a million and usually closer to two million, with post money valuations nearing $10 million. in seed money instead of $1.5M

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To Follow On or Not to Follow On

This is going to be BIG.

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. Do what you're good at. It's that simple.