Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. What is the current valuation of the company? Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Financial projections.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. LetsGiftIt.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. What is the current valuation of the company? Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Financial projections.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. In a convertible note structure, Im penalized for increasing your valuation. In a convertible note structure, Im penalized for increasing your valuation.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation.

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Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Touched by an Angel.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

I have to build a financial model? I get asked this question a lot by entrepreneurs (and students). Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense? Do you understand the business and market? ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Friday, August 26, 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years!

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

An unprecedented 80 private companies have raised financings at valuations over $1B in the last few years. Buying into such a notion is dangerous – dangerous for the entrepreneur and dangerous for the investor. If you want to know if the business model truly hunts, you must pay careful attention.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M ► October. (1).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In this case, LinkedIn was the only logical one that came to mind and didn’t see a viable business model short of that result. I asked him how the deal came out for investors since the sale price was significantly lower than the valuation on the round they were raising when we met. Steve Bennet. at 1:20 PM. ► July.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For firms that dont have access to the most successful entrepreneurs, trying to predict an individual or individual teams success rate based on experience, personal attributes, intellect, etc. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. Steve Bennet. at 1:42 PM. Email This BlogThis! Newer Post.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

As an entrepreneur, you are going to have to take risks. Nailing it before you scale it can change how much you’re able to raise from investors and the valuation at which you raise. When entrepreneurs are selling widely from the start and showing us vanity metrics, it’s clear that they haven’t found PMF and it’s a quick pass for us.

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