The converse is true as well: a messy, unattractive, or problematic car will turn off most buyers; or, if buyers are still interested, they will use such flaws to beat down the price. skip to main | skip to sidebar 19 January 2010 Startup Valuation: How Much Is Your Company Worth? Unfortunately, I cannot make it much less fuzzy. They dazzle. MORE >>

The best chairman or chairwoman is a mentor, sounding board, and listener. If you're constructing an advisory board for your business, you need to be clear about its role and judicious in the choice and range of directors. People quickly came to trust him because he stopped the board from being too conformist. Why not? MORE >>

Thus your startup needs to determine the intangible value offered by the incubator (and yes, a $150,000 convertible note with no cap and no conversion discount qualifies as an intangible). Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! The “revised for the cash investment only&# pre-money valuation is $600,000. MORE >>

This is why designing and presenting startup metrics plays such an important role--metrics like engagement (MAU, DAU), stickiness & retention, upsell / conversion rates, virality, etc. This is a huge time sink, and it is often hard to re-ignite the conversation weeks or months later when you finally do have some data points to show. MORE >>

I'm on the advisory board for a local Chicago environmental charity. Recently, however, I started a conversation with a board member in a different way - I shared that I worked for a small business focused on growing companies and creating value. Here are three of his lessons, in his own words: 1. MORE >>