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Re:Show HN: Venture Dealr – Visualize and turn the knobs on ... by jessaustin on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:40PM (#10348015)
Their percentage stake is how much they put in relative to the pre-money valuation.

Directly above this statement is a bar graph that says "investment 20% equity", while this statement led me to expect it to say "25%". (20% makes more sense to me, but that would mean s/pre/post/)

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Re:Show HN: Venture Dealr – Visualize and turn the knobs on ... by floatrock on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @03:55PM (#10348573)
You have a 2M slice (money) and an 8M slice (pre valuation). The 2 is therefore 20%. I guess "relative" is a bit of an imprecise term. Tried to keep the formulas out of it to make it more approachable, but I'll see if I can be more precise. Thanks!
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Re:Show HN: Venture Dealr – Visualize and turn the knobs on ... by jessaustin on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:42PM (#10348934)
"Relative to" seems plenty precise to me. If you're dividing $2M by X and getting 20%, X = $10M, which would be "post-money".
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