Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. All principals and employees add value.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. My name is John Bates. After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. Sets the valuation at the time of the investment. it is acquired) and (b) the employee is terminated without cause (or sometimes resigns for good reason).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2019

The employees depend on their expertise and training. The diligence: Interview customers, vendors, and employees. Listen to if they mention the business owner’s name more than the business name itself. Ask employees questions about their job and see if they know the answer, or if they look to their boss for the answer.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance. Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance. Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Questions I ask Amanda Dixon: [1:14] What’s the story behind your company name? [1:57] John Jantsch (01:14): So I have to start with the name. Amanda Dixon (01:33): Know what, there is not a story, but I need to make one up because everyone asks the story is we needed a name and a domain. This is great.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

Or a company like Zappos (who was famous, growing, and profitable) still got only a 1x sales valuation when bought by Amazon because of thin margins. There’s many possibilities, each of which will cause a different valuation of your company. To hire key employees. Let’s start with the buyer. Which makes sense.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2020

They’re all VC-backed, and it was venture capital financing, those back then young startups, received, which was integral to their tremendous growth. Moreover, as the name suggests, the team is more than one person. [Photo credit: Annie Spratt on Unsplash ]. by Axel Grubba, founder for Profit From Tech.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For instance, the cap table will help you with various possibilities while running business activities like available options and pre-money valuations faster. The data presents a historical insight on a cap table that can affect the valuation of your startup when it comes time for a new round of fundraising. Total share ownership.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors. Party B: The investment banks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. All principals and employees add value.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, CNBC and the Financial Planning Association conducted a survey, which concluded that 78 percent of small-business owners planned on selling their own businesses so that they had the finances to be able to retire. If you don’t have a family successor, then you might have to look for a trusted and competent employee. Reason No.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

When asked how he figured out who his target market was, he responded, “I looked at the volume of sales in my city, from the property valuation administrator, and then looked for the ‘sweet spot.’ For Tim, choosing a company name was a strategic action. “My The Complete Guide to Registering Your Business Name.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Employee Benefits. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. Create an Inc.com account: Subscribe to Inc.coms Free Newsletters. Start-up | Mondays.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As the company announces its $530 million Series F at a valuation of $8.5 As an employee, I never waited for instructions to do something. You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - The hardest thing has been saying no to exciting opportunities in the name of focus.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In fact, 90% of the top grossing apps are subscription based across all categories: education, fitness, dating, music, wellness, personal finance, etc. Many startups are hoping to be the next name on that list. That’s how Slack got started. No matter which one of the giants wins, new startups face big hurdles to get into the mix.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And the model we had in mind, there's a book called Valuation, which our, our firm has had an updated every year for the past 20 years or more. And that really is like the guide for corporate finance executives on how to value a company. It sort of gives the field almost a bad name, right? And into the app.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Before being named president and COO of OnPay , a growing online payroll solution for small businesses, McKee worked as managing director of The Lenox Group, where he advised growing companies on how best to raise and structure capital. How do you collectively plan to finance the business as it grows? Why or why not?

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

How to pump up your VC valuation. Let’s say you receive a term sheet for a $1 million investment at a $3 million fully diluted pre-money valuation, and you’re kind of disappointed. One possibility is to negotiate a higher valuation and offer warrants (i.e., Home About Matt Client references Contact. 10,000,000.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Your executive summary will include the following sections: Who you are: Your business name, location, and contact information. . Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs. Personnel plan : Costs of employees. This is your value proposition. Financial plan.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They’re a mix of finance news and deep dives into specific FinTech topics, and the guests they get are just incredible. In just 45 minutes, you learn how these brilliant minds take ideas from infancy to – in many cases – companies with billion-dollar valuations. But their podcasts are why I pay attention to them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Previously, on the venture side you wanted to invest as early as possible, because the first round of financing got you to a product, and then you'd get beta-type customers, and then you'd raise a second round at a much higher price, and the business could immediately take off from there. We'll invest at a $50 million valuation.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Thanks!

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Olaf Carlson Wee.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. In fact, the most fundamental strategy is the financing strategy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Staring at us in the board meeting were three term-sheets from brand name VC’s and an unexpected buy-out offer from Google. In fact, Google’s offer for $15 Million was equal to the highest valuation from the venture firms. They hired a world-class team with co-founders and early employees who shared their vision. In the U.S.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? Ultimately, I predict these and other companies will go out soon, but for many of them, they may also go slightly underwater relative to their most recent private round valuations. I am expecting to see this happen as soon as mid/late January.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve been on so many different boards now that I need to go back and count them up to name the number of different boards on which I’ve served. One of the reasons I joined Greylock is that I shared the firm’s philosophy on investors and entrepreneurs: namely, companies succeed because of the entrepreneurs and executives, not the investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. “Honestly, [name], I wouldn’t take the money.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. My post looks at this from the consultant/employee point of view. Name and email address are required. what your rights are.

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