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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

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Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t forget that long after you forget the CAPM pricing model, how to do regression analysis or how to calculate NPV without a spreadsheet – your network should endure. It pays for all of our great engineers. What you lose: 4. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. It’s how we move products.

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The art and science of valuing websites

The Next Web

Income-based valuations consider aspects like CAPM (capital asset pricing model), IRR (internal rate of return), NPV (net present value), WACC (weighted average cost of capital), NCF (net cash flow), and GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). Asset approach.

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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

andrewchenblog.com

Understanding your engine of adoption User retention Of course, it’s not enough to just acquire paying users, you need to retain them. If you have a super high churn rate, then at best you’ll be stuck at a revenue treadmill (doing lots of work but flat revenue and no profitability).

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