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nl on Nov 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everpix, Snapchat, and the Startup Lie

You are forgetting dilution.

It's pretty common for A-round investors to be diluted by 50%. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-... shows it pretty well.

noelwelsh on Nov 8, 2013 [–]

Good point. That raises the exit amount the investors seek quite substantially.

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