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How one can reply when a VC asks about your startup’s valuation
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When a VC inevitably asks about your valuation expectations, it’s a trick query: In case your response is simply too excessive, it’s a purple flag, whereas a lowball determine undervalues the corporate.
“We’re letting the market value this spherical” is an acceptable reply, however provided that you’ve already gathered substantial information factors from different buyers — and might hearth again with a couple of questions of your individual, says Evan Fisher, founding father of Unicorn Capital.
“If that’s all you say, you’re in bother as a result of it may also be interpreted as ‘we don’t have a clue’ or ‘we’ll take what we’re given,’” stated Fisher.
As a substitute of stepping into chilly, he advises founders to pre-pitch buyers from their subsequent spherical and use takeaways from these conversations to form present valuations.
Within the article, Fisher contains pattern questions “you’ll want to ask each VC you converse with,” together with different ideas that can assist “once they pop the valuation query.”
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