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Re:When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft) by pg on Saturday September 15, 2007 @04:23PM (#54996)
Structurally that is almost guaranteed to be a bad deal. I doubt you'd ever find a deal of this form in the history of a startup that went on to be successful. If an investor buys as much as half the company (it does happen in some series A rounds), the valuation should be higher.

Investors might pay $200k for half a restaurant or some other business like that, but not a startup.

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Re:When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft) by electric on Saturday September 15, 2007 @08:17PM (#55084)
Yes I think the professor realised this -- he was one of the founders of lavalife IIRC.

I have seen the show and my observation was: The dragons are really mostly into funding sauce-makers, innovative clothing accessories, etc. and they apply the same principles to startups -- doesn't work well.

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