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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. If you're doing seed deals, how often does a down round in a seed deal even happen? I swear, its totally foolproof--guaranteed to bring superior returns. Do what you're good at.