Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

However, with the cost of tuition fees constantly on the rise and a lot of successful entrepreneurs being drop-outs, do you really need to go to school? Taking a course in finance and accounting will help to give you a better view of the financial aspects of running your own business.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Dividend Time Value of Money Finance 100

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

For every customer that doesn’t pay at all, most companies have multiple that pay at least a month late. The incentive might not be high enough if you’re mostly selling low ticket products and services, but could really incentivize customers if your services account for a large share of their operating costs.

Time Value of Money 81

Time Value of Money .Net Operations Customer 81

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Unfortunately, many companies don''t get financing--because they don''t get any of the above. Who is going to help point you in the right direction of who to talk to, or who can speak from the perspective of the customer? It''s what the best performing companies do once they take on outside investors.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Time Value of Money Finance Cost 60