Deal Structure Developer Revenue Valuation 
YoungUpstarts
MAY 14, 2018
To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Series B is the new Series C.
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Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2011
Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. This allowed me the opportunity to coach and develop others who were interested in the concept and process but simply didn’t possess the “know how”.
grasshopperherder.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Valuations. I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. I was approached with one sweat equity offer that placed the valuation of the company at >$5 million pre-money and before even a seed round of funding. The company with all the revenue is Company C.
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