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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

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. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

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. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

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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. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

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. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

andrewchenblog.com

Persuading peopleto pay for your service and invite their friends requires creativity, product design, and lots of metrics. Understanding your engine of adoption User retention Of course, it’s not enough to just acquire paying users, you need to retain them. Ad.com 20M 0.10% 20,000 10% 50% 1000 $20,000.00 $20.00

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