A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 11, 2011

SEOmoz founder and figurehead Rand Fishkin wrote a typically transparent, thoughtful blog post about his struggle of whether to raise a Series B. The typical arguments against: (a) unfair to employees/co-founders, (b) now you’re not hungry so you care less, work less, (c) swinging for fences without attention to detail is imprudent.

.Net 230

.Net Cofounder Dilution Finance 230

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Look up the Time Value of Money. Andrew Tate expanded upon this on ProfitWell’s blog : Andrew Tate: “But having that money up front means that you can make more investment in your business, growing your user base and boosting your revenue. But you’re going to do the research anyway, of course.

Product 48

Product Retention Revenue Acquisition 48