Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Huge downturns have a real impact on the revenue line of start-ups and therefore the pressure on valuations. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

Burn Rate 263

Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

K9 Ventures

MAY 28, 2015

At K9 we invest in companies which have a clear/direct revenue model and typically don’t invest in companies that follow the Ubiquity first Revenue Later (URL) revenue model made famous by Eric Schmidt in 2007. I call this Revenue Development and have written about it before. >$0/month. That’s real money.

Revenue 48

Revenue Startup Burn Rate Cofounder 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. This corrected only to go back up to 13.4x

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Yesterday was a Monday. tl;dr summary.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305