Tag Archives: venture capitalist

How to tell if a venture capitalist will actually add value to your startup

Ask yourself these questions to nail down the elusive VC value-add with your company.

These days, deals are extremely competitive, and every venture capitalist (VC) wants an edge. As an in-demand founder raising capital, you'll hear VCs talking about the factors they bring beyond...

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What does post-money valuation mean?

Finance is almost as good as the government at coming up with needlessly hard to understand words for relatively easy to understand concepts. As a subset of finance, venture capital (VC) is no stranger to this phenomenon.

We recently published an article defining terms like option pool and liquidity preference. And pre-money and post-money valuation are the black…

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