ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

Conforming with Torchbankz, the dropshipping industry is expected to reach a market valuation of $557.9 To implement such a transformation, you need to carry out serious work, which can be based on Big data analysis, cloud and mobile services, and agile development. billion before 2025.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

Before the rapid rise of Unicorns, (startups with a valuation over a billion dollars), when boards were still in control, they “encouraged” the hiring of “adult supervision” of the founders after they found product/market fit. Adult Supervision.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. In April 2022, the company announced it has raised $2 billion (at $31.5

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

Startups in the cybersecurity sector are facing a daunting market environment , contending with decreased valuations and increasing pressure to sell while competing for vital funding and collaborations.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

As I highlighted in a recent blog post , digitally mature companies derive more revenue from their physical assets (+9%), are more profitable (+26%) and have overall higher market valuations (+12%). It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

And, over-fundraising can trigger a domino effect of complications, from cap-table issues to inflated valuations, which can ruin future fundraising. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary. Thanks to Mike Pio Roda, The Creative VC ! #5-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Look at your growth team score and ask yourself: are you working in a multi-disciplinary team where you focus on high tempo testing on the entire customer journey for bottom line and valuation impact? Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). Unify all user data in one place.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); As long as the CEO’s behavior affects their employees not their customers or valuation, VCs often turn a blind eye.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory. Entrepreneurs first map their assumptions and then test these hypotheses with customers out in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. The companies that can show “startup-like” growth rates of 50% plus per year will get stratospheric market valuations. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. Act Like a Startup.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was at least $250M (2). liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend (1).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Super Angels sometimes drive up valuations. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And the model we had in mind, there's a book called Valuation, which our, our firm has had an updated every year for the past 20 years or more. And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

A realignment of valuations by late stage investors? People started thinking of startup unicorns like this: Illustration for WSJ: Chris Silas Neal. What happened? Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? The beginning of a tech downturn?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Agile is a Sham- [link]. Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. 4 Code-Free Steps to Launch Your Business Website – [link]. 50 (mostly) free social media tools for brands – [link]. Why the Best Product Doesn’t Always Win – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment. It now has a multi-billion dollar valuation. So it’s important that you do not leave the decision until it is too late when you have no money left and are unable to raise any more.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

One has only to look at Facebook and Groupon’s multi-billion dollar valuations or Twitters 190 million+ users after just a few short years in business to see this. This is mostly stressful, but do remember that while standards are so much higher now, so are the rewards.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion. Angels vs. venture capitalists. Tweet This Tip. “I’m

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Deal with company admin: 409a valuations, approve stock options, vote on key measures (15%). should we raise capital now while valuations are strong or wait until next year when we have more traction? The Agile Board. With the limited time you have together as a group, I’d want the following ratio of time spent.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2021

It should reflect our mission and values, like agility and diversity. The leading fintech companies have seen their valuations triple or quadruple in just the last two years to tens of billions. We thought the name of the company should be more than catchy. It’s more important than ever to be thinking ahead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. Not just because we can command a 3-4x step up in valuation if we find product/market fit pre [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Many of the best entrepreneurs I see find themselves besieged by investors, and have actively turned them away , at least until they reach a point of valuation and scaling where they don’t have to give away a lion’s share of ownership and control. Bootstrapping not only reduces cash needs, but increases commitment.

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Agile VC

JULY 24, 2013

Put plainly, the subprime model of VC would be to invest in the mediocre startups at a low valuation. Or to focus solely on getting the lowest valuation as an investor, which by definition will price you out of the most desirable companies which typically have substantial demand for their equity.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The very strongest companies can still likely get out if they really wanted, but may not command the valuations they hoped for in more bullish times. What does seem to be true is that the current aversion for new IPOs is mostly due to general lack of appetite for risk at present, rather than something intrinsic to growing tech companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Agility is the watchword for 2021. With the changes we plan to make, we’ll be able to upgrade and update our valuation process to make it easier to use and faster. innovating and designing something that can cater to the needs of people wanting to sell their car quickly or just get an instant valuation.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

In fact, Google’s offer for $15 Million was equal to the highest valuation from the venture firms. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. Customer and Agile development to find the business model. It reduced risk while allowing them to aim high.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 21, 2012

One way to think about that is when penetration moves from say 0.25% to 5% – that is typically when companies can grow really fast and valuations sky rocket as analysts and incumbents come to recognise that a major market shift is underway. Agile Diagnosis - web and mobile app for doctors to improve speed and accuracy of diagnosis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

They also had greater and more rapid increases in valuation at successive rounds of venture capital funding. New startups need to be agile and flexible. The fact is, bookkeeping can be hard to learn. Successful startups make data-driven decisions rather than relying on instinct and “feel.” Get credit for your business.

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