>>Record your calls and self-assessI'm assuming that the other party was informed the call was being recorded. I'm not sure I'd be too comfortable dealing with an entity which recorded my calls without my consent, an act which in certain jurisdictions may not even be legal.
Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19
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Re: Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19
#12What did you guys get diluted to? :( I hope this was a good stable valuation across all investors. What's the value in raising really low amounts like 5k? would it not have made sense to keep a minimum amount e.g. > 50k/100k?
from the end of the article:
Take small checks. People writing small checks is something that's very common in Silicon Valley. I love having a bunch of founder/operator investors to tap in to when we need help. You can see from the image above, we raised over $700k from intros that originated with a small $5k check. If we hadn't taken that small check, we likely would not have connected with many of those other investors.
Re: Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19
#13>>Record your calls and self-assess I'm assuming that the other party was informed the call was being recorded. I'm not sure I'd be too comfortable dealing with an entity which recorded my calls without my consent, an act which in certain jurisdictions may not even be legal.
I'm the author of the post - yes, of course. best i can remember, a handful of people asked to not record. almost all were fine with it.
Re: Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19
#14What did you guys get diluted to? :( I hope this was a good stable valuation across all investors. What's the value in raising really low amounts like 5k? would it not have made sense to keep a minimum amount e.g. > 50k/100k?
Hey! I wrote the post.
SAFEs make it easy these days to add someone to the round (for any amount). The issue becomes time management (is it really worth hours of calls, responding to questions over email, etc) trying to close such a small check.
There's a secondary issue of wrangling each investor in subsequent rounds or an acquisition (which that can just gets kicked down the road). Some investors provide value beyond their money, mostly with their connections to other investors, connections to potential customers, and skills in certain areas, or just generally someone you can call for advice.
One thing I've learned having gone thru this process: it's common for angel investors to write small checks, though not common knowledge. I always thought you needed to write a $25-50k check to be able to invest in a startup. It's common for people in the industry to invest smaller amounts like $5k-$10k, sometimes even less than $5k. I've even now started doing it myself.