Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Employee retention, for both startups and established businesses, is more important than ever. More and more employees are leaving roles to join companies that offer greater flexibility, increased benefits, higher pay, or even a more mission-driven culture. Federal income tax-free earnings until employees take distributions.

Vesting 88

Vesting Stock Valuation Stock Options 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Both have worked. Most are still confused about the right priority.

Revenue 145

Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. Traditionally, it was simple.

Revenue 246

Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Instagram had 13 employees when they sold for a billion dollars. That was before WhatsApp sold for 19 billion dollars, with 55 employees. That’s $345m per employee, compared to Instagram’s paltry $77m per employee. Was there any startup founder who didn’t feel depressed when that happened?

Metrics 246

Metrics Early Stage Retention Revenue 246

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2017

Businesses are finding that being socially responsible can be great for the bottom line, as well as good for employee morale. As an advisor to many new businesses, I see a host of advantages for every new business by being socially responsible today: Expands the potential customer target market size.

Government 120

Government Retention Valuation Employee 120

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

You can potentially get a high share price by constraining float but that’s more akin to a private offering than public one where you’re looking for the market to price your business. You can also sell a ton of the company to the public, trying to find the true market price for demand. I was at Google for their IPO. Am I Right?

IPO 90

IPO Stock Retention Valuation 90

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Are they consistent with your founding team, are they competitive in the market, and will they not create precedents that you’ll regret in the next round of hiring? Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

That contrasts with previous eras where great sales and marketing capabilities and great engineering were often more important than product (think about the great enterprise software success stories of the 1990s…). They process 50bn messages per day with 99.9% uptime and a service so good that 72% of active users come back daily.

Product 123

Product Valuation Retention Acquisition 123

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically. It’s axiomatic that in a perfectly priced market, a specific level of investor risk in any business should price identically across all companies.  Example three: High growth in a stable market.

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

OneBox.com — On $60m invested, sold for $850m 18 months after launch to J2 just before market crash — score! In other words, they’re back to seeking product/market fit, and only an immense market (and excellent fit) will counterbalance their crushing costs and pay back past investments.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

So it''s been a couple hours now that the news is out: Facebook purchased WhatsApp for €16B (plus €3B on top for employee retention). Facebook took one of the leaders off the market and made the rest of the market a nightmare for a while! The market was DONE! Same goes now for the messaging market. .

Silicon Valley 110

Silicon Valley Retention Valuation Restful 110

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

If you’re a CEO who can’t quickly bias yourself for action and if you wait around for someone to tell you what to do, then your investors, or more likely the market, will make those decisions for you. Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Emergence of New Market(s). Marketing programs spending. External Assessment.

South Korea 334

South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Our goals, their goals.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

What is the post-money valuation of your last round? Post-money valuation” is the value of the company after the last round of money was put in (again, lines of credit and promises don’t count). Assume that you have $0 for marketing, how would you market the product? Any bozo can market a product with a million dollars.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Gust

JULY 23, 2012

Donations of private stock enable investors, founders and employees to support charitable causes and contribute to the community while receiving simultaneous benefits in the form of substantial cash savings from reduced taxes as well as bypassing capital gains taxes. Typically, Americans give cash when it comes to charitable contributions.

Stock 114

Stock Capital Gains Warrant Stock Options 114

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? The entrepreneur expects the company to be worth many times this valuation and so does the investor. Should I take Angel or VC money?

Equity 40

Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

But it’ll be interesting to see how public market investors react when Facebook files an amended S-1 pre-IPO with Q1 2012 numbers, particularly if there’s similar Q1 slowdown in ad revenue. To put that in perspective, Facebook’s overall operations (which are highly profitable) generated about $1.5 link] leehower.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

It’s not just matter of personal pride and fulfillment, it’s a matter of meeting your own expectations and keeping your promise to your clients and your employees. While one may see profits as a success, others may view it as customer satisfaction, employee retention, or innovation. Marketing Group ! #14-

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur .Net Metrics Revenue 132

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

Transcript of Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing broadcast is brought to you by Gusto, modern easy payroll benefits for small businesses across the country. It can be defined in retention of customers.

Cofounder 63

Cofounder Australia Retention Sales 63

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. It’s sometimes called “product/market fit.”

Cofounder 431

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

Small Business Force

AUGUST 11, 2009

By either setting too high a valuation and/or making sure you keep controlling interest , you might do so at the detriment of being able to get the right staff and early capital you need to get the business growing. If possible, make all employees eligible to be "owners" through the option plan. Use options as incentives.

Vesting 32

Vesting Equity Valuation Dilution 32

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

But as I like to tell entrepreneurs, great PR could add $10 million to your valuation or increase your chances of closing a round 2x and either case is a reason to make sure you have good press. You can’t measure the retention benefits but I promise it exists. It’s much hard to get funded as a company nobody has heard of.

PR 415

PR Early Stage Dividend Acquisition 415

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Revenue is not necessarily an inspiring goal for employees – to attract top talent, you will need to inspire employees with your mission, not just your metrics. Employees may or may not be able to directly contribute to a revenue target (depending on their role) and won’t be inspired by it.

Metrics 179

Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Helps make marketing better. Every web analytics tool in the market measures single-session conversion rate, so if visitor, your potential customer, does not convert in that single session (i.e, This will have huge implications on your paid search strategy, your valuation of clicks you get from Google and Bing. Blah, blah, blah.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The ‘below market’ hit way smaller than it was 10–20 years ago for sure, but it still exists, especially at seed and Series A stage. Basically, do they think there’s room for promotion and ongoing recognition/retention compensation? As an employee you can do similar math with a little help from the company.

Salary 56

Salary Burn Rate Dilution Equity 56

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. That’s why it is a tried and true marketing scheme. Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Warren Buffet, 1997.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Other options for workers can be taking collective action, solidarity unionism, forming independent unions, employee resource groups (ERGs), guilds, joining a worker center, new innovations/ideas, etc. Are we going to see a new generation of service and trade employees turning to unions? Being honest, unionizing is f **g hard.

Chicago 78

Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53