Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

If you’ve never written anything like that, browse the Net for business plan samples and templates. Consider hiring an accountant at the early stages of your business. If your major relates to business sciences (finance, accounting, marketing and business law), chances are that you’ve had business plan assignments.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2014

Not to mention the mental stress of having to make back every dollar you spent in the early stages of setting up your business. Buy another car for $20,000 and your net cash flow will be $10,000. Now calculate your net cash flow for the period you have selected. This will give you your net cash flow.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Whether you’re an early-stage company or have been around for ten years, for entrepreneurs, leading and managing a small business, especially its growth, is never an easy task. We were going to miss our forecast by 25%. "We realized we weren’t going to make our numbers."

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

There may be times, in the early stages of your business, where that’s what you have to do to pay the bills. Sales Forecast: Show a projection of monthly sales estimates during the first 12 months of operation, and annual sales estimates for the first three years of operation. Different companies can make each strategy work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

Most of those people are at the very early stages of starting a business and as such, are looking to see what others have done. If you’re serious about your research, also be sure to have a look at the “What’s Hot Culinary Forecast” compiled by the National Restaurant Association. Every month over 1 million people visit Bplans.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”. The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. Source: Fundera .

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. My name is John Bates. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets. First, because of the returns.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Offer discounts for early payment. What are yours?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Techstars is probably the most famous accelerator but the idea of the accelerator versus the incubator because there is living field, because there’s this very early stage fields for them both. The cool thing is with the device like, that with the science like that, there’s a lot of early stage proving ground needed.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

It hardly deserves any attention at all in the early stages. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. For some closing thoughts, I’ll just add that: Valuation tends to be too much of a focus for most early stage companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Instead, we should have thought of it as an indication of validated learning.

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