Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

But many years later, I began to appreciate that one of our core flaws was our business model. As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8

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Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit. Validate your business model on real customers. Giving free beta copies of your solution to customers to elicit testimonials does not validate a business model. Every business requires spending money to make money.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

How does your business model make money? Good causes such as feeding the world’s hungry may help your marketing but may not sustain a business. The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

But other businesses like law firms, contracting firms, real estate firms, will take hits, too. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Out of business? Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. Others are cutting their valuations.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How the solution and business model work to fund the business. Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” How valuation multiples work Why did multiples become a shortcut-heuristic for estimating valuations in the first place?

Valuation 36

Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Explain the business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Explain the business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011.   If even less cash flow but with the desire to retain the business: Friends and family money on junior debt terms.  Example two:  Explosive market share growth and revenue in an expanding market with acquisitive players available.

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Explain the business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Explain the business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the other extreme, I don’t condone greedy and unethical business practices to unjustly shake down customers and employees alike. As an investor myself, I look for a balanced story focused on the major elements that drive profitability, including the following: A 5-year financial forecast achieving a positive cash flow early.

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Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A business model must be created out of whole cloth, and generally it’s a compilation of assumptions piled on top of other assumptions. Every model has a happy outcome when a founder is trying to convince himself or herself, a team, an investor, or even a spouse that the venture ahead is a good idea.

Valuation 48

Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Your revenues are declining or you don’t have any revenue at all! Revenues don’t appear overnight; even the greatest success stories had to work hard to start getting traction and growth. Yet if revenues start to decline, or after a few months customers are still leaving you for other solutions, then you may have an issue.

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Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable. Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable.

Valuation 117

Valuation Cap Table Startup Later Stage 117

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Whichever type of plan you choose, remember that a business plan is a living document. Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Assumptions change based on experience, and your business plan should change along with these assumptions. Be specific.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries. Each brewery will have its own unique business model and business plan. Before opening a brewery, prospective brewers have to figure out the right business model for their plans, location, interests, startup resources, and long-term vision.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

enabling you to expand on an already working business model), and if you’re in the extremely early stages of building your company, you still need to develop your product. This is going to be a much more valuable investment of your time than fundraising, and can help you determine early on if you have a viable business model.

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Early Stage Startup Forecast Channel 60

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! SaaS 13 Index Valuation. for Lawson?

Software Review 48

Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

Small Business Force

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Then, you need to describe what your business model is, i.e., why, how and how much that customer set will pay you to solve the identified problem or the unmet need. However you define it, be it eyeballs, customers, revenue, cash flow, what have you accomplished to date with your business? A final word.

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Sweat Equity Private Equity Valuation Equity 20

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? Two, revenue. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95