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Back in 1999 when I first raised venturecapital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed.
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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venturecapital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? Until we weren’t.
In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venturecapital.
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