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Founders: Protect your equity. VCs have a playbook for valuation that most founders donโ€™t see. Here's a side-by-side look at how they calculate deals differently from you: ๐•๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง Founder: $3M pre-money โ†’ $4M po

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Hey I am on Medialย โ€ขย 1m

Another reason to avoid VC entirely. Bootstrap or die. Why give up control when you can grow organically? All these complex terms are just fancy ways of saying "we own more of your company than you do.

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