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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. Little did I know that the simple and cathartic act of writing would lead me to become not only an author of several more books, but also a nationally syndicated radio host and patient safety speaker and trainer.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. Modista had only had modest revenue to date (~5K) and had by no means gotten to the point where it was having an impact on the revenues of Like.com.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

Gust

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. In the Bay Area its the Bandof Angels.