SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy. Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. There is a much better technique. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Something standard like a SaaS company where the exits scenarios and valuations are well-understood may not need a slide here, but the more non-traditional or unique the venture is, the more information which a Founder can fill in the blanks of “what could be” are helpful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation. Future unproven projections don’t set today’s valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

No two businesses are exactly alike, and there are numerous variables that can affect the overall company valuation. What are your customer acquisition channels? What do those channels cost? Once you have those basic questions answered, you are ready to start your valuation. What is your market position?

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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.

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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.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

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.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 14, 2012

There are certain types of events that investors look to as evidence that a company has overcome certain challenges and has therefore reduced risk in the business and become deserving of a higher valuation. demonstrating a repeatable sales model (typically telephone sales, direct sales, or channel sales). achieving first revenues.

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Finance Valuation Venture Capital Dilution 118

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 16, 2010

The real reason they're pissed is that VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started , both because of inexpensive technology and marketing channels and because there are enough angel investors that founders don't have to sell the entire farm for ridiculous amounts of cash they don't really need. Interesting.).

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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.

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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. I do have an iPad, but I've been seriously excited about the potential for Android for quite a while now.

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Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Others are cutting their valuations. Ask yourself: Are there now new customers, new services and new channels to pursue? Involve the board and the rest of the company. The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation. and the rest of the world, including Asia, is even a steeper decrease. Facebook’s constant changes make it more difficult for businesses to use Facebook as a marketing channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

More About David Barnett: DavidBarnett.com Subscribe to David’s YouTube channel Learn More About The Agency Intensive Certification: Learn more Like this show? So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. 20:06): Remember that the valuations based on the cash flow. Yeah, sure.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

Those numbers get completely thrown out when the advisor is your distribution channel. Unlike the rest of the team though, advisors get full acceleration on an exit (e.g. 2% seems to be normal, trending toward the high end if you’re pre-funding and the low end if you’ve already raised a decent round[1].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They monetize via high-priced advertisements during the prime-time airing on TV, via syndication to international audiences or less-watched channels after the original series has run and via DVD sales in retail channels. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

As of yet, most software that is commercially available only focus on a single communication channel (such as Skype or zoom with video, etc.) And when you look at how the rest of technology has advanced since then, it’s mind-boggling to think that we are still using similar tech. Thanks to John Linden, MirrorCoop ! #19-

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Too often, in my in-house and now consulting days, I talk to clients and executives who want to know how much each dollar spent brings back in revenue and which channels and activities generate the largest return. It was a significant chunk of the marketing budget and came at the expense of other channels. Why do I say that?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

At the end of this post, we’ll discuss the valuation at each step (how much the investors value your company and therefore how much of it you need to give up to get this money) and how much revenue you should generate at each step.). The rest that makes up a company is called its business model. Valuations. 2M in 18 months.

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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. The security of today’s public key cryptography systems rests on the assumption that breaking into those with a thousand or more digits is practically impossible. RSA) or elliptic curve (e.g.,

Technology 436

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The referral program resonated well with the users and rest, as they say, is history. With a valuation of more than $1 billion, and with more than 100 billion worldwide users, the popular note-taking app has also launched a popular double-sided refer-a-friend program. Airbnb Referral Marketing Program. Evernote’s App Referral Program.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of the very smart things I’ve noticed Armada is doing is making heavy use of YouTube as a marketing channel. The radio turned into a marketing channel that led to an increase in sales. Social media services have huge valuations as companies, but as yet, many of them don’t profit, though they are expected to eventually.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Livingston and his team spent a few months “begging” RIM to open its popular messaging service to other channels, but the company had no interest. Both Spark and RRE agreed to split the round, but at the slightly lower figure of $8 million and with a lower valuation for Kik. Credit: PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

If that’s the case, it’s essential that that founder and the CEO have a very tight relationship and coordinate closely to avoid allowing members of the organization to use that alternate channel to the board to get around the CEO’s decisions. CONCLUSION. I hope that you’ve seen that a great startup board can help your company succeed.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The best startups channel their efforts and adopt a strategy of excluding whatever is not necessary. Values Are More Important Than Valuation. Within them burns a passion to solve problems and spot opportunities the rest of us mere mortals cannot. Startups are by definition resource constrained.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). Generally speaking, healthy boards have exposure to the rest of the management team as well, but interact in ways that do not undermine the CEO. In the early days of the Web 2.0

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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. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

My presentation from the Summit can be downloaded here and the embed is below but the summary message is the rest of this blog post. Either we’ve discovered magical beans and elixir or perhaps we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves on valuation. In 2014 3 out of 12 exits were occurred at a lower valuation than the previous round.

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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. Consult/freelance to pay off your expenses and leave the rest of your time for working on your startup. Joel at Buffer was able to raise $400k with a very similar story to ours.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Following the acquisition S1 shareholders will own about 55 percent of the combined company and Fundtech shareholders the rest. The company has developed a kind of private advertising channel that enables advertisers to send marketing messages directly to potential customers via Internet banners. Israel’s Radiancy Inc.,

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Many complained about her communication style, finding it to be abusive when specific employees or groups were singled out on company Slack channels— particularly customer service employees when she thought the company was failing its customers. Maybe he’s just nicer in Slack channels? I have my doubts. I believe it still will.

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www.gabrielweinberg.com

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Second, every VC expects you to keep making forward progress (as if you're just talking to just them and have the rest of the time to work on the business -- yeah right). Intro channel breakdown. This reality is especially troublesome for two inter-connected reasons. First, you're distracted and so your business suffers.

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