Acquisition Forecast IPO Metrics 
ReadWriteStart
JULY 18, 2011
Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. You want to build your own IPO and exit. Every company has a forecast for how it will get to an arbitrary $100 million in revenue and they all hit it on year five. For 10 years there have been no gazelles to take down.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). 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). link] leehower.
Occam's Razor
OCTOBER 14, 2014
If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. In an ideal world as you do the above exercise, you'll take into account: 1. And other such things.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition.
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