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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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Why large companies acquire small companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”. So this acquisition is worth more than $20m in revenue, which at the average revenue-multiple for public tech companies , yields $100m in market value.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

This is a classic example of Goodwill: Trello’s accounting statement doesn’t justify their $425 million acquisition, but its strong user community and reputation does. From this, founders can learn that Goodwill impacts acquisition pricing in conjunction with current revenue rates and profits. Alpha generation.

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Visualizing the Interactions Between CAC, Churn and LTV

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity).

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10 unusual ways startups can monetize their digital properties

The Next Web

As startups build their digital brand, reach and influence, they can extend their brands into new verticals and create new revenue-generating opportunities through brand licensing. We are experiencing an era where intangible assets constitute an increasing percentage of a company’s balance sheet value. Selling an e-book.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. This number looks relatively low compared to $330B+ of cash and cash equivalents sitting on the balance sheet of the cloud giants and public companies in our global cloud Index.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

In the past month, Amex announced it would acquir e Kabbage for up to $850 million, while Enova announced it would acquire OnDeck for $90 million; both acquisitions were facing distress due to COVID-related delinquencies. Square, for example, started with its POS payments product and later layered in lending.

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