Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.  The overarching idea, of course, is to reduce the cost of capital while maintaining appropriate flexibility for the venture.  2]   Aligning interests in structure: cost and risk.  This would imply a recap. 

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA.

Covenant 162

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In 2012, the founders of Tuft & Needle left their prestigious jobs at a software company to build their own mattress brand. Today, Tuft & Needle profits over $125 million in revenue and over 100 employees. You can create an affiliate site, sell your own products, drop ship for a merchant, and more. Source: Pixabay.

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Startup Equity Affiliate Finance 88

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

5, 2012, and it is a very personal post. It was there that I met Eric Simone (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice) as well as Josh Baer (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice through his team building our first solution and getting paid primarily in equity versus cash). This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Dec.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Even a small investor in the early days will take a large equity percentage, due to that pesky valuation challenge.

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Startup Burn Rate Bootstrapping Valuation 264

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

These trends usually mean that the founders of the company end up with lower amounts of equity and a more complex system of corporate governance when compared to other industries. Moreover, with aging global populations, increasing average lifespans, and rising healthcare costs, the industry remains a lucrative prospect for entrepreneurs.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. ► 2012. (1).

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There are various ways to measure the above outcomes, and there are varying levels of correlation with revenue, retention, and whatever, but they’re all generally good signs. For the sake of simplicity, and because we’re seeking to optimize websites, let’s measure revenue and conversion increases as a proxy for “liking,” deal?

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Revenue Social Media Retention Metrics 48

Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2018

As a successful young entrepreneur (he’s only 30! ), Harrison Rogers is Founder and CEO of HJR Global, a private equity company that has increased at least 200% every year for the past 4 years. You have to be able to pause the growth without hurting the brand in order to measure the variable costs associated with that growth.

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Private Equity Entrepreneur Global America 68

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. 1 of MRR generates $12 of annual revenue, so $1 commission equals 1/12=8.3% What is my cost of capital and how much is worth an incremental upfront payment?

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Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Convertible equity? The new form of convertible security or “convertible equity” is essentially a convertible note containing most of the usual terms — except it’s been stripped of the features that would make it a loan. How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Convertible debt?

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Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. This is a huge mistake.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Amazon is committed to driving down costs and providing better value for its customers. Back in 2012 they acquired robotics company Kiva and now they have announced their latest generation warehouse which uses “robotics, vision systems, and other high-end tech” The interesting thing for me is what this means for jobs.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We Image source).

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. and costs $1.10 Tanya had invested $75k into the company.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

percent in December 2012. OnDeck’s CEO, Noah Breslow, reported in January that his company generated $65 million in revenue last year, a 150 percent increase over 2012 revenues. Statistics from Biz2Credit, an online platform which brings small businesses together with lenders, indicates that 17.6

Small Business 84

Small Business SBA Cleveland Early Stage 84

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We Image source).

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

The investors and the entrepreneurs are – or should be – aware that the price of the company’s equity is set by the market – in simplest terms, what an informed buyer is willing to pay.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The Performance Appraisal » October 08, 2012. At this point, RTMS had one customer paying them what amounted to all of their annual revenue - plus or minus $500,000 I think.  And, now they come to discover that they'd created a problem that would cost their customer millions in lost sales.  October 2012.

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Wisconsin Entrepreneur Illinois Startup 68

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

He said that when he made those investments in 2012 and 2013 eCommerce wasn’t a hot sector with VCs and that remains the case now, but here at Forward Partners we’ve made a number of ecommerce investments and, like David and his partners at Venrock, think there will be more Dollar Shave Club scale exits going forward.

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eCommerce Investment Bankers Curation Stock 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. If you understand the premise of blitzscaling, it’s not truly growth at any and all cost… it’s a strategic mindset for building a company from scratch at previously unheard pace specifically where digital innovation enables capturing a large addressable market. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 4, 2012

At the onset of 2012, many start-up executives around the world are sticking their copy of Lean Start-Up on the shelf, leaning back, and bemoaning the fact that they have a new set of challenges ahead of them. Going from $1-10 million in revenue is no easier than achieving that initial $1 million. Now the pressure really begins.

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Lean Dilution Revenue Hiring 53

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

The opportunity cost of the money I have not made on crypto is insane because I first was talking about crypto in 2011 as I’ve been in financial services for a long time. They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates. That scares me.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. If you understand the premise of blitzscaling, it’s not truly growth at any and all cost… it’s a strategic mindset for building a company from scratch at previously unheard pace specifically where digital innovation enables capturing a large addressable market. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the accounting business, your revenue chart basically looks like a hockey stick,” says Ernie Mayhorn, owner of Capital Tax Solutions in Carson City, Nev., To even out the “hockey stick” revenue cycles, Ernie finds money-making opportunities for slow periods. In 2012, Tina was a one-person shop; today, she has 10 employees.

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Hockey Stick Small Business Private Equity Denver 113

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. And the equity in their house isn’t rising. was still a term being bandied about.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). The most interesting to me – and this got me thinking – is accounting services provided at cost. So why not offer this service to startups at cost?

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Los Angeles Detroit Venture Capital Lean 303

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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