Startup Valuation: How to Calculate It - Startups 101

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When you speak to early-stage founders, they often don’t understand how they can either determine a reasonable valuation for their friends & family, seed, or Series A round, or judge if an offer they receive is “fair and reasonable.” There are a lot of moving parts to valuation, and things vary across rounds. In this video, we cover the details and cover what typical numbers look like for these rounds.

Thanks to our friend and today host Steve Barsh from @DreamItVentures

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0:00 Early Stage Valuation - Intro
1:07 Early Stage Valuation - Friends and family investors
2:40 Early Stage Valuation - Angel/seed round
3:39 Early Stage Valuation - Convertible Notes
4:52 Early Stage Valuation - Cap and discount rate
5:37 Early Stage Valuation - SAFE
6:11 Early Stage Valuation - Valuation
7:00 Early Stage Valuation - A few things to consider
8:30 Early Stage Valuation - Founder Vesting
10:07 Early Stage Valuation - How much are you raising?

[justusniklasstarossom]

I love how this video discusses everything except the valuation of a start up. It is especially striking that the title is called How to value a startup and then not a single valuation method is actually discussed.

[stevebarsh]

Thx Elliot Levy (Dreamit) for pointing out a mistake I made at ~6:40. I said "if the SAFE valuation cap were a bit lower, say $4.5m". Oops! $4.54m > $4.0m. My "lower" example should have been something like "for example, $3.8m". Apologies for not catching that when we wrote, shot, and edited the video!

[MaryPatricia-wrwj]

The collapse of Margin debt leads to a decrease in stock prices and trigger a wave of selling as investors try to cover their losses, Buying a stock is easy, but buying the right stock without a time-tested strategy is incredibly hard. Hence what are the best stocks to buy now or put on a watchlist? I’ve been trying to grow my portfolio of $145K for sometime now, my major challenge is not knowing the best entry and exit strategies ... I would greatly appreciate any suggestions

[jakeradler]

Would love a series that focuses on upcoming major startups. Or even a series that talks about incubators and accelerators in detail.

[silicon.]

Another fantastic video for entrepreneurs- that people charge $1000s of dollars for,

[jason]

This video couldn’t of had better timing, let’s just say I have a big week next week.

[Paul_Marek]

We raised almost $750K from friends and family over 6 years in 6 different rounds. The first $350K was raised at $2.5M valuation, the rest was raised at $12M valuation. Seed round of $3M coming up at $25M valuation.

[UcheOgbiti]

I think it's a perfect time for a book on everything about starting and running startups

[adamzaczek]

We're raising a seed round right now. The advice is spot on, thanks!

[Reelinsightss]

Just discovered this channel today. Very helpful to understand the basics of raising capital.

[iigilik]

That's extremely helpful. Thanks! Not easy to be in the startup sphere, but I hope it will give it's fruits 👍

[jrustyshaffer]

Fantastic video. Thanks! I think it's ironic that the SAFE was designed to put off the "valuation" argument between investor and entrepreneur but if you use the Safe that has the valuation cap, you're right back into the fray....I tend to like the discount rate and MFN SAFE's and then it's up to the entrepreneur to sell the idea....

[amorosogombe]

Thank you so much guys. This is invaluable information for us technical founders.

[jerrythomas]

Can you all create a video explaining what happened to Eduardo Saverin (Facebook founder) when he got diluted? How does one protect himself from that?

[daredariuz]

I wanted to hear some Metrics that help me valuate in actual money, LIKE, monthly active users, how much one user is worth, how that translates in funding numbers, you talked about accounting and general things, some examples would be useful, thanks for the video! Convertible notes and caps, are not related to "How you valuate your startup"

[camiloguzman]

If you are incubating a startup (developing the concept, tecnology, making proof of failure on the market and product, and so on), how you could protect you company and the product.

Because if you are exposed to angel investor, VC firms, and investment banks, many times the things they want is to prop up the price of the company via ad and maketing expense, and this doesn't a company to grow organically. They just get you to an asset bubble.

[wrsharma]

Valuable information shared in simplest way!

[kwazimnyandu]

Thanks for a great video and content. I'm gearing a startup from Johannesburg, South Africa.

[johnwallace]

Content so good and so well presented.

[vijaylakshminarayanan]

Thanks! Excellent overview on SAFE, founder vesting.