Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

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. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

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. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

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. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

This approach is based on the belief that revenue matters most. It calculates value on the bases of revenue that the buyer can expect to earn from the site, taking into account the risks that are involved in operating it. Primary drivers include site revenue and site usage. What drives value? What multiple?

Valuation 128

Valuation NPV Net Present Value IRR 128

andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

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). This is a big lever.

CPA 51

CPA Retention Viral Acquisition 51