Acquisition Agile Metrics Valuation 
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 15, 2020
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower. link] Healy Jones.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. With that said, Facebook’s acquisition price is <10x the conceivable revenue for WhatsApp. Viewed through this lens, Facebook’s acquisition price of $19 billion is something like 8x conceivable revenue. billion for it.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. With that said, Facebook’s acquisition price is <10x the conceivable revenue for WhatsApp. Viewed through this lens, Facebook’s acquisition price of $19 billion is something like 8x conceivable revenue. billion for it.
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