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. Now comes the really tricky part: getting me to review all that stuff you just neatly uploaded.

Angel Investor 153

Angel Investor Elevator Pitch Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review 153

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Entrepreneurs nowadays want to boast about brand-name investors, huge rounds of funding, and a team of high-skill employees. Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation? But flattering media attention too easily shifts focus away from the metrics that matter.

Valuation 162

Valuation Cofounder Metrics SEC 162

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A).

Technical Cofounder 334

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 334

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. Raise too soon and likely take on more dilution, wait and get valuation up (as our metrics continue to rise) but then run to a point where you have a lower cash balance and place more risks on the business.

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Low supply of companies with traction drove the valuations and deal sizes up. The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. Valuations are rising to match. Seed stage was super tough.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

6) Title your file in a format like [Company Name] [Forecast] [yyyymmdd], e.g., “[Company Name] Forecast 20150524″. Naming your file “Forecast.xls” does not make you look considerate or organized. Naming your file “Forecast.xls” does not make you look considerate or organized. HOW TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT READABLE.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Many startups are hoping to be the next name on that list. Examples include – Roam Research – the note taking app that recently raised a seed round at $200M valuation Superhuman – the email productivity tool Masterclass – video classes from subject matter experts. That’s how Slack got started.

B2C 187

B2C Cloud Valuation Acquisition 187

David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

Every one-paragraph summary of a company should ideally have: – Company name and website. Note the pitch should explain what they actually do preferably using the Mad Libs format : “My company, [NAME], is developing [A DEFINED OFFERING], to help [DEFINED AUDIENCE], [SOLVE A PROBLEM], with [SECRET SAUCE].”.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Elevator Pitch Syndicate Syndication 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Featured visibility or signed contracts with name brand players and distributors, such as Home Depot or Amazon, almost always indicate traction. In the final evaluation, traction is the key driver for your business valuation, and is needed to attract investors, partners or a public stock offering.

Acquisition 120

Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor Stock 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What happened after that crypto crash were 3 intense years of building behind the scenes – namely the scaling, custody, regulatory clarity and transparency required before institutional investors could feel comfortable holding this emerging, computer based asset class. All in one day!

SEC 45

SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. Early Progress: Performance is a difficult thing to measure as a seed stage fund given the time horizons and the fickleness of private company valuations. But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far. OUR INDUSTRY.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits on the inflated valuations (regardless of whether or not the company should have ever been public.) The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

Contrary to their name, angel investors are not interested in any kind of altruistic approach to investing, and rather they expect an outsized return on their committed investment in supporting an early stage entrepreneurial endeavor. Short- and Long-Term Potential for Outsized ROI.

Angel Investor 100

Angel Investor South America Early Stage Africa 100

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation. Why, yes, they are.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? All in all, an interesting start for the year! Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:35 PM. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing. Amit said.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

In fact, last time I grabbed a beer with Matt he mentioned that he had active investments now worth over a billion in valuation. Gogii [the original company name] was an early leader in the free text messaging space and we had tens of millions of downloads of our product. What did I learn in working with Matt? He’s committed.

Silicon Valley 150

Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Francisco Architecture 150

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

The name of the bird is PiccoZ. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. at 8:29 PM.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The cover note should include: name, website, location, revenues (if any), detailed financing history (if any), and precise terms on which you are seeking to raise capital. If you are testing the market to see what terms you can get, just say, “We are targeting to raise $X at pre-money valuation of $Y.”

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation Prospectus Early Stage 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Especially in early rounds — pre-seed and seed— when there are limited sales metrics and only early signs of product-market fit, these advisors help complete “the package” so to speak, providing a useful industry reference to investors and filling in the gaps in domain expertise that are common in disruptive tech-first founding teams.

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). ▼ 2007.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Dear Mr. Botteri: My name is William Smith, and I have a brief editorial question about a page on the Cracking the Code Site. Become.com also has a "Nearby Stores" feature that allows users to plug in a zip code and get store names, addresses, phone numbers, hours and Maps. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. at 8:41 PM.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Further, you demonstrate on your spreadsheet that a venture return to early investors is plausible at a valuation that gives you enough equity to get the job done and to take care of you and your team at exit time. We took an advisor named Howard out there. But, the manner in which you get paid can swing your valuation considerably.

Valuation 48

Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? There are a now a handful of funds, K9 included, that are Pre-Seed funds in name and practice. The amount of capital (and therefore the resulting valuation) also sets the stage for the next round of financing for a company.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

So I began a complete re-design of the site with a high-end designer named Ryan Scherf, and I worked with a contract developer to have the new design applied to the existing 200 or so pages. If you can go over the valuation methods each side used, that would be very helpful to know, even if you don’t share the cash figures involved.

Acquisition 53

Acquisition Software Review Technical Review NDA 53

Software By Rob

APRIL 2, 2014

Guarantees to the new owner that they can market with your name aren’t worth near as much as a neutral product offering to begin with. As a general rule of thumb, any passive income stream in an online business will attractive a premium valuation.

Affiliate 67

Affiliate Valuation Reputation Sales 67

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Use the top-left drop-down box to view different metrics, which include: % New Sessions —find out if you’ve managed to successfully target a new demographic. Again, you will see the option to use the metrics listed above (% New, Avg. This is obviously dependent on the business and seasonality, so you will have to use your own judgment.

Customer 60

Customer Analytics Search API 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Software By Rob

APRIL 2, 2014

Guarantees to the new owner that they can market with your name aren’t worth near as much as a neutral product offering to begin with. As a general rule of thumb, any passive income stream in an online business will attractive a premium valuation.

Affiliate 27

Affiliate Valuation Reputation Sales 27

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

After the quick background story, we then dive into pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about how to sell a website, including - How Thomas determines the value of a site and what metrics matter most Which sites Thomas sells on Flippa (in 2011 his company sold 1.3

RSS 85

RSS Analytics Portfolio Metrics 85

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Your executive summary will include the following sections: Who you are: Your business name, location, and contact information. . Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics.

El Paso 61

El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61