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paahijen

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    Comment #5866

    A follow up thought. This also puts XX (may be YC in this case) in valueing your company just right! (Ok YC are nice people so thats not a problem, but if you were asked this quest…

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    Comment #5865

    Not quite, you should read Paul's essays (don't remember which exact one). VCs valuation depends more upon the amount of money (s)he's going to put and generally they won't invest …

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    Comment #5864

    Don't quote a number, quote a multiple instead. :-) eg. If XX invests 20k for 10% in your company. their 20k becoming 200k is a good deal which implies something like 2M for your c…

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    Comment #5863

    This is a bit smart, 'cos the clients fearing that fewer ads will be shown, will actually be willing to pay more $$s and thus the PPC rates will go up! Not sure about the long term…

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    Comment #2287

    Basically following reasons - I read somewhere that paul said he wanted to do via-web to solve the money problem once and for all. I think that is a real good motivation. Second, p…