skip to main | skip to sidebar 24 January 2010 Startup Business Development Strategies: 7 Tips For Putting Together Stellar Deals Business development is fun. There is a natural bias against working with firms that are unproven, underfunded, and still developing and/or evolving. few tips for startups doing deals: 1. Many Thanks! MORE >>

Don Dodge wrote about a very dry but critically important issue facing private companies that issue equity to employees… 409A valuations : IPO bump? – If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? It is called the  409A Valuation requirement from the IRS. MORE >>

This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Customers: A company’s only sustainable source of cash is sales, so you need to keep track of your business development efforts. By Akira Hirai We can measure success in many ways. MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar 11 January 2011 Deals Gone WIld (aka "What Drives Massive Startup Valuations?") A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on startup valuation that presented a table of normal or “typical&# price ranges for startups depending on the sector and stage of development, among other things. to $3.7B MORE >>

Regardless of the reason for the valuation or the urgency of the task, finding the right expert will pay off in the quality and utility of the opinion.  You can even take it a step further by asking the secondary references the same question and, thereby, developing tertiary references.  Introduction. Selling the company. Divorce. MORE >>