The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

As a founder, you get a pile of money in one of four ways: You generate profits and keep some (dividends). You’re making solid revenue (e.g. 5mm/year) and someone buys you to add that revenue to their portfolio (revenue-based acquisition). all your revenue comes from one big customer).

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Dividend Acquisition Founder Bootstrapping 50

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. Let’s start at the end.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

Customers more than ever want to do business with people they know, respect, and trust, and implicitly allow these factors to override cost and other features. Every business leader tries to deal fairly with everyone, such as refunding a return from a dissatisfied customer. Highlight benevolence to customers and society.

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Customer Social Media Dividend Technical Review 432

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Naïve expectations on funding terms and process.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

John Jantsch: If you’re a founder of a startup, maybe you need some brutally honest advice from somebody who’s been there. He is the founder and former CEO of Moz. But we’re going to talk a lot about his new book called, “ Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. Transcript.

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Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 33

Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

What can founders do in advance to make the trough as shallow as possible? . Third, when you have PMF and growth, and you find yourself needing to really build a repeatable business model. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue? Rob Go] This is a great question!

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Bootstrapping Finance Dividend Vesting 46

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

” The company was pitching a franchise business to roll out the technology nationwide, when it had yet to actually run it live in a single location. The founder wanted to take the offer, but he called his advisor (his business school professor) who told him it was too much dilution for this stage, so he turned it down.

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Silicon Valley Salary Dilution Indiana 167

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. Because shareholders liked that it was only 2 weeks revenue or 6% of cash on hand. Numbers for Australian market.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

They asked for my advice, and we went through a number of recommendations that readers of this blog will already be able to guess: adding revenue opportunities, engagement loop optimization, and some immediate split-testing to figure out whats working and whats not. Share what you learn. As you refactor, you get smarter.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 79