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Tech IPOs Share Price Behavior

I'm at a post series D tech growth company, $3.5 billion valuation at last valuation, on track for an IPO in '24 (market conditions permitting) I'm fully vested, I joined over 4 years ago pre-Series A, so I got a good amount of options and of course at a very low valuation. Thinking aloud about 2 issues 1. Is there a typical price range that tech IPOs go to market? $20 to $40? How is this determined and is there any way I can predict it? 2. Is there a particular behavior to tech IPOs share price in the first few months? Someone told me that the share price goes down after 3 months when employees are able to sell their options. Is this right?

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Idea: Verified Emails

I have an idea to start a mailbox company (e.g. outlook, gmail) and as soon as the user registers, they will need to verify their identity and upload relevant documents for the same. This will enable everybody to have only one account and the whole email ecosystem could become trustworthy. What do you guys think?

Cold email

Hi, I’ve got an online job board and I’m attempting to send a campaign of cold emails to UK businesses. Most providers won’t allow this due to potential for complaints and domain issues - legally there’s no problem with cold emailing UK limited companies … does anyone have a work around or can suggest another way?

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🚀🇧🇪Leuven-based Cumul io bags €10 million to drive better business decisions "Our low-code building block approach to analytics offers a simple, yet powerful way for any business user to build highly engaging customer-facing dashboards." https://t.co/EwlNPuhfW4

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UK-based CareLineLive secures over €3 million to improve home care 🚀 “Our mission is to streamline paper-based and other legacy processes... and ultimately give them back more time to do what they love best: caring.” https://t.co/jvKKPQAVY5

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A government owned OS? Your thoughts? India is developing its Own OS to Compete with iOS and Android https://t.co/FPX1FdvJNh

Founder very hard to work with. Need advice.

We are in this situation where our founder shut down our ideas and product suggestions. The output that we do is never good enough. He constantly change his mind about what he wants. He gives us feedback with a condescending tone and acts that he is superior. I’m losing motivation because I feel that I’m not valued here and starting to regret leaving my cushy job to work for this person. Has anyone experienced this? If so, what did you do? I appreciate some advice.

ESOP valuation for new job

Hi guys, I am being offered a senior position in a company at a rather early stage They have raised $20m at a valuation of $60m recently on the back of $2m in revenue... New shares are 1x non participating preferred. There is still $12m in the bank. Now they are offering me options at **the post money valuation of $80m.** Options would obviously convert to common shares and there is no 409a valuation available at this stage... Part of me says this company has a future (decent pipeline, good line up of people etc) but part of me also tells me this is not the strike price they should use for options. what should be a fair value for this options? How shall I negotiate a better deal? Thank you!