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PrayingForExits on the state of VC, ZIRP fraudsters, revolutionary product launches & more | E1717

This Week in Startups

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The New Standard for Valuation in the Seed Stage

The market is still willing to bear some level of inflation, especially at the seed stage. If you don't like the valuations that you see at demo day, I advise people to just clear a market quickly out of five to $12 million valuation. A very easy strategy for the dentist or the new fund manager who's at a YC demo day and objects to the $20 million valuation is to do three meetings a day over Zoom for 30 minutes each, 90 minutes of work.

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