ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. Would you say that? . David Zhang. David Zhang.

Partner 132

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

" Revenue doesn't pay your bills, GM does  —  @msuster 2/ Founders obsess with revenue as a vanity metric. Some even grow "bad" revenue just to show growth. Payback periods on customer acquisition way more important to you in the near-term. Ultimately it matters a great deal.

Founder 242

Founder Dilution Software Review Later Stage 242

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. Email readers, continue here…] I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.”

Later Stage 48

Later Stage Early Stage Valuation Acquisition 48

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). That post was written with later stage companies in mind, but I’m now starting to see the same issues crop up in companies at earlier stages as well.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

cdixon.org

AUGUST 3, 2012

For consumer startups with transactional models, e.g. e-commerce, the number of users required is often far lower because revenue is the more important metric. Hence, many early-stage consumer startups are switching to transactional models. - VCs are increasingly focusing on B2B for early-stage investments.

Bridge Financing 86

Bridge Financing Early Stage Valuation Later Stage 86

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Because companies today have way more revenues than the companies that went public or had huge up rounds back then. And, they aren''t necessarily revenues from other dot coms. They''re consumer, SMB and enterprise revenues--maybe not enough to justify their valuation, but much much further from zero than companies in the past.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

Founder 281

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 281

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

So – for early stage companies (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A), the terms tend to be clean and simple, and valuation is in a modest range that probably has a median around $5m. For growth companies (usually Series D or later), there are pretty clear market comparables based on growth rate, revenue, gross margin %, and type of company.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital Private Equity Early Stage Valuation 70

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If private capital is no longer available in the future, these companies will seek a public offering or acquisition. “Indeed, contrary to Kupor’s argument at the Rosewood, it is this later-stage investing—with its shortage of regulation, tremendous envy, and Schadenfreude—that worries many bubble-watchers. “We

Liquidation Preference 70

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I like how the Angel Capital Association describes the difference between angels and venture capitalists: “Angels generally invest their own money in start-ups and very early stage companies, while VCs mostly provide capital they have raised from others to later-stage businesses for growth.”. 51 percent).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. We are responsible for bringing in new user acquisition, right? It can be a request for a 5 million acquisition doesn't, or 10 or whatever. They want a path to grow themselves. That's okay.

SEO 87

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. As a result, I expect to see slower pace of investing across stages. Lower valuations , especially in later stage. Down rounds, especially for growth stage companies, and bridge rounds galore. Total deal value this year was $16.9

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Valuation Down Round Venture Capital 158

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Obviously, it did not convert.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Its thesame with acquisitions. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages. No one wants to buy you till someone elsewants to buy you, and then everyone wants to buy you.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

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 Performance has been more un-even.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley. How many were started by programmers?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

In this time, as I said previously, we are looking to improve the valuations of our companies and get them ready for either a VC investment round (and an equity buy-out for us), or a strategic acquisition, such as Google’s acquisition of LabPixies back in April after 2 years of operating with just Angel capital. Janvest: Yes.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

My boss and mentor from Open Market, Gary Eichhorn , made the entire management team read it in the 1990s to hammer home its important lessons as we stumbled through the chasm on our way to scaling from zero to nearly $100 million in revenue in a few years. At each stage, there are different problems. Anyone up for a rewrite?

Mezzanine 20

Mezzanine IPO Finance Business Model 20

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. Two, revenue. Many business owners today really think of financials as being about the past, how much revenue have we had, how much cost did we have. What do you do? Three, growth rate.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. ” On a micro level, failure is always painful.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93