How to Negotiate a Startup Valuation

Find your lead investor and signal your valuation expectations to begin the discussion on investment terms

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readNov 28, 2022

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The most frequent question I get asked by founders (other than what does DC stand for) is how to calculate the valuation of their startup. Unfortunately, there’s no simple formula to pop out a number. Founders need to…

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