www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. Breaking Down the Buffett Tax.

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. That is in stark contrast to the late 90’s goldrush where VC partners made millions overnight as their companies IPO’d for crazy valuations.

Technical Review 312

Technical Review Due Diligence Spain Warrant 312

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

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.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Justify funding requirements, use of funds and specify a current valuation estimate. What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The founders.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation. Estimated mobile display spend in the U.S.

South Korea 88

South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. You have to be prepared for the grueling rigors of fundraising and repeated rejections, and difficult negotiations over valuation. You will experience challenges.

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

However, what is clearly not in doubt, is how Uber is massively profiting by harnessing and channeling the entrepreneurial, Sharing Economy Power of these tens of thousands. billion at a $40 billion+ valuation like Uber, my gut is that you will find the path to meaningful growth and a High Value Exit more clearly and easily defined.

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Private Equity United States China 48

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. In 2022, just as in 2009, there was only one IPO; typically, there are between three and 16 per year.

Germany 165

Germany Liquidation Preference Option Pool Advisory Board 165

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Time is money and there are too many people wanting me to spend a lot of money on better ways for me to spend my time for their not to be better channels for this, because I still can't figure out what to do with myself this weekend.

Technology 116

Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 21, 2011

As he embarks on his long-anticipated IPO road show, Groupon’s founder and CEO Andrew Mason will need to channel a bit of Howard Roark. I want more young companies to succeed, break through the IPO glass ceiling, and continue to prove out the venture capital-backed company-creation process can work.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley IPO Chicago Boston 45

VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. There are 85 Israeli unicorns, but only about 50% them justify a billion Dollar valuation, according to Viola’s report. As growth investments (and valuations) go down, unicorns might struggle to survive, according to Globes. ” Fred Wilson.

Valuation 158

Valuation Down Round Venture Capital 158

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In the last six months quantum computing companies IonQ , D-Wave and Rigetti went public at valuations close to a billion and half dollars. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution can distribute keys between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel.

Technology 436

Technology Algorithm Stealth Distribution 436

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Fall turned to winter.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. These business services channel partners range from marketing agencies to payroll providers to accounting firms and have started to understand the power of SaaS when many of the ISVs and SIs do not.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO. Channels are very hard for SaaS companies to build, so don’t base your plan on SI’s and traditional ISV’s.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Either we’ve discovered magical beans and elixir or perhaps we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves on valuation. Here is a chart to show you the median valuation of late stage private tech companies compared to traditional growth rounds of capital led by VCs and also vs. the public markets. The response? 25% “down rounds?

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

But we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends. The cap simply refers to the maximum valuation that the seed investor’s money will convert at when the company reaches a series A financing event.

Founder 142

Founder Incubator Cofounder Accredited Investor 142

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. The founders.

Restful 222

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

Business Model: Time to get some channel and business partners on board, because adding revenue by adding sales and marketing dollars is going to be expensive - no matter what the early LTV vs. CAC data shows. Do we take a little venture debt to get us to give us some cushion as we progress to the next valuation inflection point. $10-50

Mezzanine 20

Mezzanine IPO Finance Business Model 20

www.gabrielweinberg.com

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Takin' VC Money (Money Cash IPO's) by Smixx Forewarning Be forewarned, this post is long. Intro channel breakdown. You can tl;dr it by reading the section titles. It's long because I'm compressing the last four months into one post. And historically I've been bad at doing serial posts, so here you go.

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 90

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Roku Channel Store. valuations. Useful blogs and links for startups. Best of Y-Combinator Startup Advice. Best of Y- Combinator Startup Advice. Raising Venture Capital. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. VC Experts. Founder Equity Issues. Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet. Venture Hacks equity section.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53