Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 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?” 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.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

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?” 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.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

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?” 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.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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?” 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.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? What about strategy?

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

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. The quality, reliability and cost of site traffic.

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Valuation NPV Net Present Value IRR 128

andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

Persuading peopleto pay for your service and invite their friends requires creativity, product design, and lots of metrics. Understanding your engine of adoption User retention Of course, it’s not enough to just acquire paying users, you need to retain them.

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CPA Retention Viral Acquisition 51