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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by hammock on Saturday May 21, 2016 @12:12PM (#11745155)
How many startups are "underwater" now- they are unable to raise additional funding at their current/previous valuation?
Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by ChuckMcM on Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:55PM (#11745718)
You can't really answer that question until a startup goes to raise more money and can't get a favorable term sheet. So its kind of like the uncertainty principal. And startups, knowing that funding has been pulled back, are working harder to not have to even ask the question (they cut costs, try to boost revenue, extend the runway they have past this current period)
Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by JBReefer on Saturday May 21, 2016 @01:41PM (#11745463)
Also called a "down round"
Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by bsbechtel on Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:07PM (#11745544)
Which means the most recent investor's investment is underwater, but not necessarily the company as a whole.
Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by endymi0n on Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:28PM (#11745628)
That and usually all employees' stock options when talking liquidation preferences, with some of them knowing and some not. At that point prepare for talent bleed until either some very good plans and news or a long, slow death.
Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by realitycheckxxx on Saturday May 21, 2016 @06:07PM (#11746401)