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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

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The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t forget that long after you forget the CAPM pricing model, how to do regression analysis or how to calculate NPV without a spreadsheet – your network should endure. I do find it strange that the most valuable skill for any employee in any company isn’t emphasized AT ALL in my experience: sales. What you lose: 4.

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