Business Model Distribution Pre-Money Valuation Sales 
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 7, 2012
The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. He did $5M in 2011 sales and is projected $7.2m
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 26, 2013
Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Always use data, not feelings, to make business decisions – [link]. Downfalls of Distributed Startups – [link].
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
They talked about a referral program, as well as direct sales. The next two entrepreneurs run a wine tasting cruise business. The company did $250,000 in sales last year and is profitable. The first was to franchise their model, selling a captain a $35,000 boat and a business plan to replicate Corks Away for $175,000.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. On the last line on page two of the workbook, you see the resulting returns to the entrepreneur with a variety of terms and valuations and assumptions. Let’s start at the end.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 22, 2012
This implies a pre money valuation of $1.045M. See my breakdown of week 2 for more on how to calculate pre money valuation.). The sharks greeted this with skepticism, and rightfully so, especially given the short time the company has been in business and the relatively low sales volume.
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