The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. Asset valuation. The concept of asset valuation may seem counterintuitive, but it is an important idea. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re interested in selling a website you built from scratch, or want to sell your Amazon-based B2C brand, there are many different baseline factors that go into determining an appropriate website valuation number. While it’s true that valuations can get quite technical, the basics are relatively easy to understand.

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eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Streamline management costs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 328

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Streamline management costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Streamline management costs.

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Entrepreneur Vertical Reputation Valuation 234

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

The Proud Owners of a Startup. Today, as the proud owner of a startup, you’re probably much better at managing your money. It might take the experience of growing and exiting two or even three startups before you know how to do that. . Let’s take a deeper look at why your startup probably doesn’t need funding.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Below, he gives an honest take about what he’d do differently and what he’d do again as a startup CEO. Rob,” he said, “no offense, but you aren’t going to get a world class, been-there-done-that CEO into a company with less than $1 million in revenue. Startups are incredibly hard. and sold to Datto in late 2014.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Morgan Franklin , a licensed real estate agent based out of Lexington, Kentucky, says, “I was confident [my idea] was going to work because I had already developed enough business to pay all of my startup expenses before I took my real estate exam.”. Essentially, your reputation is your brand. Keep Your Startup Safe from Legal Trouble.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Reputation – Equally, the investor might not be worried about squeezing out your existing VC, per se, but doesn’t want to develop a reputation as a VC with an edge. I wouldn’t work in this business long if I had a reputation for screwing over other investors to get a deal. Reputation. So what happens?

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I asked for all of the following information: Monthly revenue. 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. I offered a bit more than I typically would given the scope, reputation, and press mentions of HitTail.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2012

Amongst the different types of crowdfunding: Donation, Reward, Lending and Equity, the latter is on the rise as a fundraising mechanism for European startups. uses auction to decide on valuation. While the increasing adoption of Equity Crowdfunding is encouraging for startups, the model faces several challenges.

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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. Outspoken investor Paul Kedrosky characterizes Color’s reputation: “It’s become a punch line. Surely not.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While most companies focus on revenue and profitability, Silicon Valley leaders tend to view valuation as a success barometer. Despite its reputation as a publicly distributed solution, blockchain is a perfect way to securely share information without risking it getting into the wrong hands.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 2, 2014

With SaaS businesses the majority of revenue will be through monthly, quarterly or annual billing recurring payment plans. Another solution would be to use a pseudonym to brand the product around and that way, the “owner” and his/her reputation would be far easier to transfer to a new owner. Micropreneurship Startups'

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Affiliate Valuation Reputation Sales 67

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last week, we explored the topic of startup boards of directors. The primary goal of this conversation was to explain how and why a great startup board can be a powerful tool to help the CEO make the company successful. One of the things a financing round brings is an opportunity to strengthen the startup’s overall network.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Status / reputation. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. . People want status.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 2, 2014

With SaaS businesses the majority of revenue will be through monthly, quarterly or annual billing recurring payment plans. Another solution would be to use a pseudonym to brand the product around and that way, the “owner” and his/her reputation would be far easier to transfer to a new owner. Choose your payment processor carefully.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

It helped them to engage already existing customers with the brand and kept the revenues steady. Another pointer is to how much the industry is ready for disruption is the trend of recent HR and Recruitment startups such as Zenefits which reached up to a valuation of a billion dollars after a few years. 16- Coffee.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. Respecting them deeply is a must.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

But, what if your startup is a good candidate, but you’re having trouble getting meetings and convincing investors that your company is the next big thing? Networking is usually the number one tip for new entrepreneurs for good reason— networking allows you to pitch your startup in a less formal, more organic fashion. “If

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The stats about Israel’s tech ecosystem have become part of its Startup Nation Mantra – Israel boasts the highest number of startups per capita (6587 companies according to SNC), the highest VC dollars per capita, the % of GDP spent on R&D is only second to Korea, it has over 350 multi national R&D centres etc.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Elon Musk’s electric car maker saw its valuation grow to more than $60 billion last year, greater than that of General Motors in spite of selling 90% less cars! Tesla’s financials aren’t great, but both its capacity and reputation for breakthrough innovations has made it one of the most iconic and valuable companies in the world.

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Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Valuation Reputation 48

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I dont control the companys valuation: if for example the company is privately-held, then the value of equity might be complicated and outside my control (you can dilute equity, reinvest any revenue instead of paying it in dividends, etc., The difference here is that is not really a startup situation.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Sadly, even reputable businesses are trying to take advantage of people in developing countries, especially if the local authorities are not paying attention to cases of exploitation. Round-tripping is used by the founders of a startup to inflate the revenue and profit and mislead investors and lenders. No revenue at all.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Thursday was a pretty cool day as a microcosm of startup VC life. On paper Homebrew’s first fund is shaping up very nicely, with, to date, significant appreciation in the portfolio and a healthy number of companies growing real revenues. But we know valuations are just a moment in time based upon any number of market factors.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Thursday was a pretty cool day as a microcosm of startup VC life. On paper Homebrew’s first fund is shaping up very nicely, with, to date, significant appreciation in the portfolio and a healthy number of companies growing real revenues. But we know valuations are just a moment in time based upon any number of market factors.

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Advisory Board LP Institutional Investors Portfolio 48

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Now that’s nothing to snicker over, especially considering that well-reputed and established firms could often have multiple overlapping funds. Therefore, the motivation is really to look for startups that have an appetite for a larger, chunkier investment. For a 10x return that exit valuation needs to be $1B!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

“Trade in an asset at a price that strongly deviates from an asset’s intrinsic value” The arguments against that, “This time the startups have real revenues!” Either we’ve discovered magical beans and elixir or perhaps we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves on valuation. ” ring hollow.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

As well as tripling the company’s valuation to $4 billion since January 2021, the round came as the company grew its monthly processing volumes by 5,000% in 18 months. I realised through PayPal and my first startup the impact you can have on people’s lives when you make money better. What made you take the leap twice?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe the massive valuation increases in cryptocurrencies we’ve witnessed of late are not based on any fundamentals other than speculation and a drive for a quick profit by many who have gained from the market hype. If you want to buy artisan goods on Etsy, the marketplace helps you source goods and verify a degree of reputation.

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