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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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4 Key Components Of Every New Business Financial Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stair Step Approach. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: MRR/25

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Easy for them to say, but what about a bootstrapped, profit-driven business? ignoring indirect costs) or saying they’ll “fix that later” by raising prices, finding other channels of revenue. Profit-seeking bootstrapped companies cannot afford those delusions. ” Here’s my way.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Instead of funding, you pay the investors a structured royalty, which is a portion of the sales. Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping.

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4 Simple Steps Will Get Startup Financial Projections

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel.

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