VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
For more about forecasting growth in these uncertain times, check out Sequoia’s “ Adapting to Endure ” presentations published in May 2022. ValuatIon should be a function of value, not ego. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A.,
David Teten
AUGUST 7, 2019
Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation. Why, yes, they are.
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Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2013
Practicing Top-Down Sales Forecasting. Top-down sales looks at the overall market and uses this information to identify your company’s projected sales, typically as a percentage of the market. Unrealistic Valuation. You should also demonstrate the problem in the market that your product solves.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years! Mostly, no.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2016
If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. SaaS valuations had completely reverted to the mean and were now trading at 4.2x
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