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How Investors Measure Startups Q&A by Anu Hariharan and Adora Cheung

Startup School by Y Combinator

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Are You a Female Founder?

The best reference is through existing portfolio founders, period. There is no compensation for that. How do investors come up with the valuations? When i first ed an v c, am, actually before y c a, i thought there was a lot of science to it. But it's actually art. It's not science. Until you're aboutCDC or so, there's no science toIt. So it literally comes down to what's the stage you're at, and what ownership does the v c want? If you have no attraction, mut say, i want 30 % of your company, right? It's not very common in the us, but very common internationally. Ah

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