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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

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He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups. I should try to come back and write about this more, but the point of this post is that it's important not to only think about this aspect. Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation. It's required reading.

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Startup Metrics

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We'll need to look at different customer acquisition channels, figure out how they are converting, and the expected lifetime value of customers acquired through those channels, and apply cost to those channels. R : Revenue - can you monetize any of this behavior? We need to make sure we have these numbers. Great stuff.

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