Down Round Equity Revenue Sales 
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. Forms of funding. ? Equity investment. Equity investment is the most popular and most talked-about avenue for startup funding. Equity investors.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. But those of us with longer memories remember that the revenue line can move south very quickly when the market overall turns south. Gross burn is the total amount of money you are spending per month.
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Berkonomics
AUGUST 3, 2023
Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And so on down then line. and profits!
Berkonomics
JUNE 8, 2017
Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one. For you who fit that description, nice work.
Hippoland
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
Primarily these things: Companies dissolvingCompanies exitingCompanies raising equity rounds All of these events are concrete events that attach a numerical value to a company. Companies that exit are valued at whatever the sale is. If a company raises a good round, it gets marked up to the new value.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 22, 2014
To meet growth and revenue targets, you hire and spend like never before. A few quarters in, you realize that product/market fit is not quite there, or you’re not as far up the sales learning curve as you thought, or your LTV/CAC is suddenly in the toilet. You rush a few key hires, overbuild the team, ramp marketing spend.
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