Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.
Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. If so, whatever revenue forecast and sales cycle estimates you had are no longer valid. Laying off people? ” exercise.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.
Gust
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? This is the most concrete valuation element, usually called the asset approach.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Mahesh Vellanki from Redpoint put up an interesting post yesterday about ecommerce valuations. revenues because growth is much lower – forecast at 5-7% next year, and their EBITDA margin is 8%. As you can see from the chart above, in Mahesh’s sample most of the companies have revenue multiples in the 1-2x range.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2017
VCs don’t expect any serious corrections to valuations in 2017 and they seem to be taking financial discipline in later-stage companies more seriously valuing unit economics over “growth at any cost.” Again, I suspect they would be more concerned today about net neutrality, cyber security, immigration and trade more broadly.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
One of the questions I get, more often than not, is what is the appropriate valuation of my business. multiple interested investors competing for the deal, and driving up your valuation in the process). Never have an investor think they are the only investor pursuing your business, as that will hurt your valuation.
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