The Startup Magazine
MAY 9, 2024
Their net revenue retention (NRR) soared to 150%, a testament to their product’s value to existing customers. Management’s assurance that achieving magical scale would naturally rectify fundamental concerns such as gross margin, retention, and the necessity for continued investment in customer acquisition raised red flags.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. … Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Just got acquired? – [link].
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Hunter Walker
MAY 13, 2023
Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. And when they’re giving stock to existing shareholders instead of cash it’s at high 2021 valuations, buried below a preference stack. per engineer.”
David Teten
MAY 1, 2013
Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. Still, deciding on the right price for a target domain name is almost entirely an exercise in negotiation, not valuation.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
If you give $2 million for 20% of a company ($8 million pre + $2 million investment = $10 million post-money valuation) that has no product and no customers and it turns around 3 months later and sells for $5 million it would hardly be fair for investor to get $1 million back (20% of the proceeds). We get the mechanics.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. They said I don’t understand mobile. The launch, by the way, was a failure. And it’s now bankrupt.)
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