Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Startup companies continue to grow at unprecedented rates, raise enormous amounts of venture capital and achieve valuations that imply that they will continue to grow rapidly for the foreseeable future. I’m not saying you shouldn’t grow engineering or do PR. But as with any sales advice, revenue diversity matters.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals. Email address: Home.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Close to 80% responded that manual processes, such as tracking down support, preparing reports and pulling data from different sources, are the biggest pain points they face in the valuation process. Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs. This information is used to automate screening during origination.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Specifically, here is what we’re planning to work on: Quadruple our gross revenue and total cases/consultations. Add an income stream (new area of practice) that will be diversifying our business’ revenue. Then COVID hit which allowed me to speed up the process of offering event consulting. Photo Credit: Mark Lizada.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH! Communicating with Your Team.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH! Communicating with Your Team.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether a fundraising event, hiring, or sales/partnership opportunity- these can be especially useful to make all parties move faster. Partnership Forcing Functions can be tricky because they typically don’t involve revenue, which drives most business decisions, but there are other reasons to do the deal.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH! Communicating with Your Team.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Great choice for the last event of the year. however, public SaaS companies like Concur, Saba, Taleo, LivePerson and Ultimate are growing 50-100% per year and trading at an average 5x trailing revenue multiples (I excluded salesforce leading the pack with 9x!) Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). anecdotes.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Example: I want our company to attend some big upcoming events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

What is the ideal size and make-up of a team for a pre-revenue SaaS startup? The Angel VC: Key Revenue Metrics for SaaS companies – buff.ly/1INSu29. Valuation As A Scorecard – buff.ly/1F0CUyC. Tips for Running Wildly Successful In-Person Events – Copyblogger crowdspring.co/1EphsSy. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Once you’re doing this you’re not optimizing your own strategy anymore, you’re optimizing against the market’s current valuation of the strategies it sees. You get glimpses into their strategy and tactics. And you start playing game theory with them. Once you’ve carved out your own path, scale, scale, scale. Robertson [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. Morgan Stanley had proposed a higher valuation to let them in. This isn’t a story about Black Swan events. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. million at a $15 million pre-money valuation.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

The event was very well received by the group with our survey showing a rating of 4.4 The full agenda of the event can be seen at the following link The event started with an optional golf round on May 11th afternoon at the Palo Alto Golf and Country Club with a wonderful weather to welcome the participants. My Investments.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

From the start we said that we would never make a decision as to what features to build or what products to sell based on revenue alone, rather we would focus on things that make our customers smile and by doing so lots and lots of revenue will fall out over time. What the chain of events is likely to be. Just don’t f**k it up.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Add to this that 72.7% just my 2 cents.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008.

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Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. Windfall events are almost required to extend one’s lifespan in the Bay Area these days, and this acquisition certainly qualified as one for those involved. 2/ API FTW.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I think the assumption is that when cycles snap back they come back so strong that future rental streams are likely to make up for missed near to medium-term revenue. Sure, they did a few Zoom events like everyone else, but digital proved to be a serious missed opportunity—at the worst moment in history to be lacking in a digital presence.

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