ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It might make sense to move more live chat staff over to the phones to handle demand. Within that dashboard is a funnel chart: The funnel bar chart shows the number of users at each stage of the sales funnel. Alt Tag: Example from a presentation by Brent Dykes that shows how unnecessary noise dilutes data.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. What market are you targeting and how are you going to get sales? How much revenue are you generating on an annual basis? If you are getting funded for the first time, which means that you have not diluted the shares of your company, you will be receiving Series A funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. million post-money valuation with no revenue. They did an inside round, spent a bunch of money and then went through a fire sale of the business less than 2 years later.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Supply and demand. To start, let’s not forget about the obvious: the natural economic principles of supply and demand apply to valuing your business. your equity in a hot new patented technology business), the higher the demand (e.g., your equity in a hot new patented technology business), the higher the demand (e.g.,

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Valuation Forecast Seed Stage .Net 167

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs jump ship from corporate environments, complaining that they want to be their own boss, only to find that investors are more demanding bosses than the ones they left. Don’t quit your day job until the revenue is flowing. Don’t let early funding increase risk and dilute your potential.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 Once you know your goal, there are two approaches to take to a social media strategy: meeting demand and generating demand: Meeting demand tries to discover what’s out there already and respond to it to stay relevant to the target market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. 3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The founder wanted to take the offer, but he called his advisor (his business school professor) who told him it was too much dilution for this stage, so he turned it down. It is very positive that the founder had generated some sales and interest from retailers. At some point the fad passes and sales will crash.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

The goal was to deliver a 30% increase in revenue, the team delivered 1.7953%. When you do that much stuff, and you can measure almost everything… The result is that our ecosystem of data people are returning a lot more negative data when measuring performance of Marketing, Sales, User Experience and Customer Service.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. They have more demand than they can fulfill already.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

If the sales team made unreasonable demands on the product organization, then that was my fault. Raise money in a highly dilutive way. Revenue at Ning is soaring and team morale is high. If someone was promoted for all the wrong reasons, that was my fault. If we missed the quarterly earnings target, that was my fault.

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Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Is that a lot?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

Businesses large and small will continue to struggle as long as demand is soft and business budgets are constrained. This means that the shock to the economy will be diluted and consumers will not feel the impact immediately. In other words, it is a tangled mess and nobody really knows how it will impact small business.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

You and your team must know how to think about problems from new angles and adapt to changing market and customer demands. Of course, you will need a killer product—but, you will also need a competent growth strategy that will encompass comprehensive marketing, sales, research and development, technology, and beyond.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. It will also minimize future dilution. One response from the LP community might be to demand commitments from new funds that prohibit inside-led rounds and cross-fund investing.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want?

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2016

Think about it: would it make sense to send the same sales email to both a brand new subscriber, and an engaged subscriber who has opened most of your emails? That’s because your subscribers are in completely different stages of your sales funnel. Based On Your Subscriber’s Position In The Sales Funnel. No it wouldn’t!

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 4, 2012

After three or four years of jamming on your start-up, you've finally crossed a few million in revenue, gotten north of 10-20 employees, and it's all starting to click. Once things are working well, there is a magnetic power that demands pouring more fuel onto the fire. Scaling is hard. Now the pressure really begins.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

There’s income at risk, an audience who may leave, a brand that could become diluted. Customer Demands Sometimes it’s better NOT to know how the future will be! If you read the comments on Yaro’s post , you’ll see how mixed the reactions are. Can you imagine being in his shoes, wondering what to do next?

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Entrepreneur Non-Compete Internet Dilution 90

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. It is a key factor in the success and prosperity of all businesses and nonprofits, regardless of their revenues. If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted.

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