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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. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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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. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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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. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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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. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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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. I do find it strange that the most valuable skill for any employee in any company isn’t emphasized AT ALL in my experience: sales. What you lose: 4.

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The art and science of valuing websites

The Next Web

Once you decide to get your site in shape for a sale , it’s important to value it properly. Then we’ll look at the different types of buyers in the market, and what that can mean for the final sale price of a site. The asset approach to valuation focuses on the market value of what’s included in the sale itself.

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