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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. Until we weren’t. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. Most plans are pretty good about estimating direct costs but bad about underlying expenses.

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5 Tips For Startups To Avoid A Financial Disaster

YoungUpstarts

And of the total amount of failed startups, a majority reported finances as the major culprit of their collapse. It can be stressful and unproductive to worry about your personal finances while running a startup. You need an adequate amount of cash to pay for the costs of running the business, from payroll to lead generation.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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20 Reasons Why You Need a Business Plan

Growthink Blog

But you'd certainly share the news that you launched your new website or reached $1M in annual revenues. To document your revenue model. Documenting the revenue model helps to address challenges and assumptions associated with the model. A formal business plan is the basis for financing proposals. Probably not.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

When new companies enter the market they really have no chance to initially unseat the incumbents because the performance gap is too large and the costs / time of catching up too unachievable. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com. They can’t.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. In 1993, Word 6.0

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