For the entrepreneur, the financing event and resulting valuation merely puts a number on the company value which then affects the percentage ownership the founder has in the company – but this doesn’t translate to real money that the owners can walk away with (I’m sure those of you who were at startups during the dot.com bubble but didn’t exit before the crash can relate to this quite well…). Valuation becomes a real issue for those companies that need to raise another round of financing (this may be where many of the entrepreneurs who raised money in the