YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What’s critical for entrepreneurs to understand is that valuations for startups do not increase at a linear rate; they increase geometrically based on achieving the right milestones. The best entrepreneurs raise enough money to achieve a set of interim milestones and then raise capital again at a significantly increased valuation.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

However, funding involves the usual process of sharing the valuation details and business plan along with the project reports, which then determines the sanctioning of the loan. This highly advanced and user-friendly technology matches you with multiple suitable investors, which you wouldn’t have access to otherwise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Because of their high visibility and huge portfolios, this new class of investors can match the right talent to the right startup quickly and efficiently with introductions and mergers. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

You need to know why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your startup. Set a realistic valuation for your startup to attract angels. A typical valuation for an angel investment is $2.5M, meaning a $500K investment will cost you 20 percent of your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Another good indicator of your real stage is the valuation you can set for your company at any given moment, to determine what portion of your equity an investor will expect of his money. Prior to the growth stage, your company valuation is limited to goodwill based on intellectual property and team experience, since you have no revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. This will help sponsors quickly identify if your audience matches their target market. However, matching demographics alone doesn’t guarantee ROI. Asset valuation. Start with demographic data.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers. When Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather squared off on May 2, Pacquiao clung to the same strategy the entire match and lost as a result. It’s an art.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Match closed up 23% at a valuation of $3.5bn and Square was up 45% at a valuation of $4.2bn. However in the run up to its IPO Square had indicated it would go out at between $11 and $13 per share, and then ended up at $9, and in October last year Square raised $150m at a $6bn valuation.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Semil asserts, Seed-stage valuations have generally been left-unchanged, and I could argue even they’ve gone up since the beginning of 2022. Valuations for the Top Decile of Seed Startups Have Fallen Less YoY While the Second Decile Have Been Hit Harder.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

To do that you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. A few years ago, an entrepreneur was building an automated job matching site in Latin America. Myth #3: Take the Highest Valuation You Can Get. Valuation is a touchy subject for most entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In today’s world of information overload, everyone relies on marketing and social media to find solutions to match their needs. Patents can raise startup valuation by investors by as much as a million dollars, and will attract acquisitions rather than copycats. Marketing is a necessary evil to mask poor technology.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was at least $250M (2). Series A-1 Preferred. Series B Preferred.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

They triage their deals – first worrying about liquidity of their late stage deals which have the highest valuations. In every major downturn inflated valuations disappear and the few VC’s still writing new checks find it’s a buyer’s market. ” exercise. Hence the term “Vulture Capitalists.”).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. billion valuation. They only recently raised $30 million at around a $300 million valuation and THAT raised eyebrows. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 Enter TweetUp.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

One of the strongest points of value that venture investors bring to the table is pattern matching, and you can maximize that by making sure the investor you end up with has seen a multitude of companies like yours. Similarly, I’d always sacrifice valuation for a clean security. Check references carefully.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The name needs to match the business. Keyword rich domain names get a considerable boost in search rankings; an exact match is even better. Just purchasing an Exact Match Domain name is not enough.”. Still, deciding on the right price for a target domain name is almost entirely an exercise in negotiation, not valuation.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

The big vision: one of the reason for the high valuation of Box and Dropbox is that they render the underlying hardware irrelevant; you trust them with their data. I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. The companies that can show “startup-like” growth rates of 50% plus per year will get stratospheric market valuations. A company needs innovation policies, innovation processes and innovation incentives to match those it already has for execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested. Super Angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Super Angels sometimes drive up valuations. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Valuations. More Than Average (ALLEGED) Fraud.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? It was from the Wall Street Journal--a publication I count on for emphasizing quality journalism over empty linkbaity headlines above hollow stories.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a state licensed professional who offers various accounting, auditing, tax, financial analysis, business valuation and consulting services. Ask what the firm’s specialties are (tax, audit, business valuation, etc.). Do I need to hire a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for my small business?

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

The big vision: one of the reason for the high valuation of Box and Dropbox is that they render the underlying hardware irrelevant; you trust them with their data. I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That leaves me out raising with two funds under my belt and no big exit and no unicorn valuations. One just got a seed term sheet for twice the valuation I put in at in the pre-seed and the other is doing $200k/month in revenue. There are others, but they’re still pretty young. I’m optimistic, but it doesn’t show super well on paper.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

And in a sale of the company, it is usually better for the seller who will command a bonus valuation based upon some multiple of recurring revenues due to the comfort value to the buyer and the increased lifetime value of each customer to the enterprise.

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David Cohen

JULY 2, 2020

This matches my own experience of what’s happening. Sure, maybe valuations have adjusted downward slightly, but the pace feels unchanged. I’ll continue to try to update and share it as we get more information. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

This means that by far the most effective way to reach a VC is to be introduced by someone who knows both of you and thinks it would be a good match. One of the primary ones is the referral source. Both parties will appreciate the introduction, and good deeds like this will come back to help you in the future.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Even then, treat your marketing messaging as a living document to match your ever-evolving audience. It took 10 years and steady growth, punctuated by a brilliant messaging strategy, to achieve a $5 billion valuation. . Fostering these connections deepens trust, which sways decision-making and loyalty. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

domainname.com) is just as critical as the company name, and the two should match as nearly as possible. Later, good intellectual property can be worth millions when your company valuation is set for investment purposes, or when the company is acquired or sold. Internet domain name. This name (www. In between, you need it to survive.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

For instance, to simulate an Uber-like experience, you could create a Facebook ride sharing page that matches riders with drivers on demand, by simply asking members to post their ride requests, then privately chatting with drivers. They matched buyers with these businesses manually on-demand.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Low supply of companies with traction drove the valuations and deal sizes up. Valuations are rising to match. A typical seed round valuation may be $6M pre, raising $2M for an $8M post, or even as high as an $8M pre, raising $2M for a $10M post. The risk here is what I refer to as the curse of over-capitalization.

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