Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment. It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. If so, whatever revenue forecast and sales cycle estimates you had are no longer valid. They triage their deals – first worrying about liquidity of their late stage deals which have the highest valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. And so is venture capital. There are times you just need help getting s**t done. Commitment.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). My Investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. 6) Title your file in a format like [Company Name] [Forecast] [yyyymmdd], e.g., “[Company Name] Forecast 20150524″. HOW TO MAKE YOUR CELLS READABLE.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. One of the questions I get, more often than not, is what is the appropriate valuation of my business. Each industry typically has its unique valuation methodologies. Your industry.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Franchises Franchises Home Franchise 500 Home-Based Low Cost Top New Fast Growing Top Global Biz Opportunities Franchises for Sale Franchises A Bright Forecast for a Solar Panel Installation Franchise. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Million in Venture Capital. 0 Comments. Post Yours.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Lessons from a Failed Forecast. venture capital. Small Business Labs. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Follow us on Twitter. Emergent Research. outsourcing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at over $1 billion. at around 27 million. at around 27 million.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. While it may seem like a tough question to answer, I would argue that most practitioners of valuation analysis would state “not very high.” It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For more about forecasting growth in these uncertain times, check out Sequoia’s “ Adapting to Endure ” presentations published in May 2022. ValuatIon should be a function of value, not ego. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A.,

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For very young companies the forecasts should show this level of growth, whilst companies at Series A or later will have to have shown this level of growth in the past as well as in their forecasts. This means that founders who want to grow as fast as AirBnB should be growing at well over 3.2x in their early years.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. Sources of additional capital – For existing companies: debt commitments, and new lenders. Can the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) be a source of capital? If you were expecting angel or venture funding get on the phone to your investor(s).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

By sales board plan, are you referring to Gary's actual business planning forecasts? Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. So in effect, his business plan showed 30% less than the sales quota? Thank you!!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Discounted cash flow models and complex valuations (e.g. monte carlo forecast simulations) are utterly, utterly useless. So, if you raise money from family and friends at a valuation of $4mm, you lose face when six months later a pro VC funds you at $3mm and you have to explain the dilution and write-down to the people you love.

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

Private company valuation techniques are particularly specious (this contrasts with a public company that every day has a definitive market capitalization). Most models are also based on forward forecasts, which offers another avenue for inflation. I call this the “dueling blowfish” problem.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. Your forecasting process is much more accurate. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 million to $22.5

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

“You won’t see crazy valuations,” he says. Venture Capital Will Rebound. Kedrosky thinks it will be eased by the return to the venture market of big investors like pension funds. That means more funding for startups targeting the enterprise in 2013, less funding for startups aimed at consumers.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

The ‘valuation multiples’ reset also came with an increase in slope of the curve. Do you understand your cost structure and can you manage to a forecastable growth rate. A drop in growth rate turns into a drop in valuation multiple. Why I’m Not Telling Every Startup To ‘Pull The Brakes’ Just Yet.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. I think there are many more opportunities to disrupt the space. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. Or is it?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. You’ll get a low valuation. You’re going to find yourself forecasting revenues and expenses based on costs and revenues of similar established businesses, rather than your own financial history. Your time is better used elsewhere. Raising money takes a lot of time.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation. Big milestones for the old continent! Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall titled it “ WTF Happened to Winter ?” We are now publishing some of the VC survey data the report used and the results are clear — it’s a great time to be a startup raising venture capital.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I’ve written countless articles and blog posts about raising capital. Professional investors, be they angels, venture capital or private equity firms are always looking at far more deals than they could invest in. Because, as I’ve said many times, valuation like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

D eloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. Clear cut: VC activity in Israel will become difficult.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Unfortunately, John Doeer was not in the panel this year, but Tony said he could not believe anymore in Johns forecasts after his support of Hillarys presidential campaign. Audience: 90 percent voted “Yes” 8) Venture capital 2.0 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

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