ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Generating solid revenue streams early on will make many of the fundraising problems much easier to handle later on. 4 Reasons to Focus on Revenue Before Fundraising. Along those same lines, revenue also makes investor negotiations much easier to navigate. More Independence. More Leverage. More Choice.

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Startup Revenue Cofounder Angel Investor 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

But when I ran the numbers, the revenue from just the first three months from the 150 who were interested in premium would cover the investment and more. In other words, if the proposed solution has no proof of adoption, neither the customer, founder, co-founders or investors will benefit from the venture.

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Did raising money at a $500 million valuation help secure the $1 billion deal? “Impending” valuation. In a perfect world you’d like to hit your always-dreamed-of valuation of $100 million pre. And stating the obvious – Facebook’s valuation is estimated at $100 billion. Let me explain.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Dilution Term Sheet 316

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Diversification across industry sectors is not as easily achieved for angels as could be accomplished in public markets, but can be achieved by co-investing with trusted angel colleagues in a broader set of businesses.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” What is the post-money valuation of your last round? Who is on your board of directors?

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

When I asked why, they talked about security and return on investment from my college years. Keep a cash cow: Your monthly revenue goal. Specify how much revenue you need to be generating from your startup for you to let go of other responsibilities (such as a part or full-time job) to be able to focus entirely on your new business.

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Cofounder Revenue Valuation Design 125

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 256

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Milestones That Friends, Family, and Founders Care About Before Investing. As a startup with zero to very low revenue, your friends, family, and cofounders do not expect you to have achieved very many major milestones. Market Validation. Prior Success.

Sweat Equity 71

Sweat Equity Founder Cofounder Valuation 71

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011). Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 1) Manage the firm . 2) Market .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

We charge a flat fee of $2,000, plus filing fees, for up to three co-founders and it includes unlimited phone calls and emails. We charge a flat fee of $2,000, plus filing fees, for up to three co-founders and it includes unlimited phone calls and emails. Button-down IP ownership and assignment issues (see post here ).

Intellectual Property 40

Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Vesting Delaware 40

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has served as advisor to and member of numerous financial exchanges, and was the founder and CEO of Arthur Lipper Corporation and co-founder and Chairman of New York & Foreign Securities Corporation. Today he serves as Chairman of British Far East Holdings Ltd.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Stock Options Valuation 48

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50. Hunter Walk: Can you share the founding story of Chaia ?

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Caching DC Social Media Finance 70

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching Revenue-Based Investing and other new approaches to VC. The question I’m asking myself: should a new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing, traditional equity VC, or possibly both (likely from two separate pools of capital)? Greater transparency to limited partners.

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Revenue SBIC Cofounder Venture Capital 60

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50. Hunter Walk: Can you share the founding story of Chaia ?

Caching 48

Caching DC Social Media Finance 48

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The team has already secured nearly $2 Million in Series A financing from Mike Maples new firm FLOODGATE, and Austin Ventures. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. The source, size and valuation when funding determines how big of a company you’re claiming to build.

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

In general, remote workers can be classified as either (i) employees, which means that they need to pay the same taxes and social security as regular in-office employees or (ii) independent contractors. Usually, the remote workers work from home or co-working spaces and visit the company office once per month or even once per quarter.

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Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98

Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Have co-founders. Angels and VCs often look for talented co-founders, as opposed to a single founder, which is a rarer case,” says Ben Lang of Mapme. However, if you can find the perfect co-founder, it can make the starting process infinitely easier—even beyond attracting investors. Follow through.

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Cofounder Metrics Angel Investor Silicon Valley 60

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Metrics: Know your numbers.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans).

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. I asked CrazyEgg co-founder Hiten Shah why they decided to drop their free plan back then. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month.

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Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Metrics: Know your numbers.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Revenue projections: What will happen to the company if the revenues and earnings projected on a worst case basis are not achieved as predicted? How much skin do you and your fellow founders have in the game ? Valuation and fund-raising : How did you arrive at your proposed pre-money valuation?

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidity Event Cofounder Valuation 105

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon.

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Community Cofounder Security Open Source 62

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

« Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” Valuations. All names redacted.).

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

by Keith Smith, co-founder and CEO of Payability. Before a quiet acquisition by PCH Innovations for just $15 million, Fab had raised 11 rounds of VC funding at a $900 million valuation. It was able to reinvest that cash into the business, creating immediate and dramatic revenue growth. The Drawbacks of Venture Capital.

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Venture Capital Securities and Exchange Commission New York City Cofounder 100

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though.

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Founder Incubator Cofounder Accredited Investor 142

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z. Two, revenue.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51