VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

“It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what’s coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster’s tribe.” 2020… where to start? 2020… where to start? billion (up from $175 billion in 2020) but not sustaining the 20% growth experienced in the pandemic.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. Others are cutting their valuations. If appropriate, offer to sign a longer agreement in exchange for lower cash payments in 2020 and 2021. Shelter in place yes/no? Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Actively buying? Not returning calls? Out of business?

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley Israel 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

In that context, I offer the following financial projection strategies, from my own experience: Forecast a business that has plenty of room to grow quickly. They prefer a liquidity event such as an IPO or an acquisition by an existing large industry player, with a valuation at that time of five multiples or more of your projected revenues.

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Liquidity Event Forecast Exit Strategy Bootstrapping 308

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for you and your team to apply. When we broadcasted our first accelerator program back in April of 2020, we were looking to answer two questions: . “Why the increase in capital?

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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. How valuation multiples work Why did multiples become a shortcut-heuristic for estimating valuations in the first place?

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Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

Transformify

JULY 25, 2016

. “It is too early to say what the ultimate outcome of the referendum result will be, but even prior to this we were concerned about a weakening UK economy combined with high valuations of domestic cyclicals,” said Nick Purves of RWC Partners.

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United Kingdom Europe Portfolio Forecast 61