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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Airbnb therefore generates substantially higher free cash flow (FCF) than accounting profit.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was approx.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal? Damn straight it would. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

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Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding?

Up and Running

The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. Understand Your Business’s Value: Additionally, you must set your business’s strategic funding goals in conjunction with your business’s valuation and share price.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

At this point it’s all paper valuation because the stock isn’t liquid so achieving an outcome is a function of executing on the business to achieve a next round of funding or selling it. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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