Start Up Blog

MAY 26, 2022

Tech companies have been getting a free pass for a long time on their valuations. Tomorrow we explore Web3 – 12.30pm on Channel 9. Ironically, it’s the dream of many content producers that their work goes viral and they are eventually picked and paid to make something for a streaming platform. the Internet of Things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors. A major resource is cash funding, but other resources, such as industry contacts and access to marketing channels may be more important for certain products. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 251

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

By saturating one market or sub-market at a time, we started building the best marketing channel there is: word of mouth (WOM). We created virality in small pockets, such as Venice Beach, California, and the virality spilled over to the next pocket, Santa Monica.

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Los Angeles Investment Bankers Cofounder Viral 133

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors. A major resource is cash funding, but other resources, such as industry contacts and access to marketing channels may be more important for certain products. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral Early Stage 274

Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors. A major resource is cash funding, but other resources, such as industry contacts and access to marketing channels may be more important for certain products. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 183

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Forget everything you learned about software channels. The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. SOCO Games.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

You’re tinkering with your marketing and sales channels. What sources of traffic are converting, and which channels are profitable, which aren’t? How it applies to your marketing channels. For example, Dollar Shave Club created a video that went viral. You now need to see if that particular channel is profitable.

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Metrics Cofounder Cram Down Liquidity Event 136

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). My initial theory was that my value came from being a consumer internet expert with special expertise in virality, since I was one who invented some key viral marketing practices.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Channel relationships are very hard for any small company to establish even when interests are directly aligned, but this challenge is proving even more difficult for most SaaS companies given the restricted value proposition to the SI and ISV community. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Channels are very hard for SaaS companies to build, so don’t base your plan on SI’s and traditional ISV’s. There is some good advice here; channels are indeed very hard, and on-premise deployments are indeed a no-no. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

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Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

If that’s the case, it’s essential that that founder and the CEO have a very tight relationship and coordinate closely to avoid allowing members of the organization to use that alternate channel to the board to get around the CEO’s decisions. David helped make LinkedIn a better product and company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How do we get it out to market, and we read a book, and I remember it was called, it was about traction channels, and there was like 18 different traction channels. Partly what I’m getting is a lot of people want to sell their business, but it’s actually very difficult for somebody to even valuate it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). They can’t sell the stock at this multiple and therefore that valuation is not available to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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