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How To Determine The Value Of A Small Business 

YoungUpstarts

Intangible property means trademarks, patents, copyrights, software and even reputation and trust of customers. There are two most common approaches which are used to figure the value of a business. The first is known as “the book value method.”

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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Steve Blank

It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses and agile engineering to build minimum viable products. Introduces the Value Proposition Canvas. Teaches you how to use Customer Development to test it. Product/Market fit.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Since inception this lodging marketplace (note 1) has enabled 825 million guest stays in over 200 countries with a cumulative booking value of more than $110 billion. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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Financial Planning For A Recession

YoungUpstarts

If you find you have customers who are majorly delinquent, this may be the time to end those relationships if they cannot be rectified. It is easiest to tighten up AR in advance of a recession, when customers have excess cash. Diversify your Customers. Gain and Retain Customers. What to Do when a Recession Hits.

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SaaS Nomenclature

VC Adventure

Bookings (or “Sales”) – the total contracted value sold in the period we’re discussing (so a month to month customer’s “bookings” contribution is 1 month revenue; a 2 year sign-up’s booking value – the full two years; basically it’s what we hit the credit cards for for our new customers).

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SaaS Nomenclature

VC Adventure

Bookings (or “Sales”) – the total contracted value sold in the period we’re discussing (so a month to month customer’s “bookings” contribution is 1 month revenue; a 2 year sign-up’s booking value – the full two years; basically it’s what we hit the credit cards for for our new customers).

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The 4 Commitments To Grow Your Reach Online

Duct Tape Marketing

Chat Spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals, and scale your business faster. Now, if you're interested in, you know, some people come to me and they wanna write a book just because it's a bucket list item or Yeah, yeah. That's hubspot.com/artificial-intelligence. (01:14):