Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

Some only allow funding for a limited time, some require you to meet your goal to receive any funds and others serve as long-term community sites. There are several online platforms that act as pitching services to connect you with investors for funds and insight or reach a community of like-minded individuals interested in investing.

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Small Business SBA Bootstrapping Venture Capital 118

Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Whether you’re an early-stage company or have been around for ten years, for entrepreneurs, leading and managing a small business, especially its growth, is never an easy task. We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. We were going to miss our forecast by 25%.

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Small Business Leadership Salary Forecast 32

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Census Bureau, in 2014, the construction industry as a whole generated $960 billion in annual revenue, and according to the U.S. Are there classes available, such as through your area’s community college system? There may be times, in the early stages of your business, where that’s what you have to do to pay the bills.

SBA 60

SBA Demand Forecast Balance Sheet 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment. We had no clue what our market was when we first started.

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

If you are an investor in an early stage venture, wouldn’t a dialog using these questions help greatly in defining and perhaps reducing your risk? Revenue projections: What will happen to the company if the revenues and earnings projected on a worst case basis are not achieved as predicted?

Pre-Money Valuation 105

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidity Event Cofounder Valuation 105

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2016

See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Communities and networking. If you’ve always wished there was a Reddit-style community for entrepreneurs in the SaaS space, you’ll love Growthhackers. You’ll find a podcast, informative videos, a members-only community page, and more.

Startup 60

Startup Analytics Metrics Community 60

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

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. Two, revenue. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. My name is John Bates. You heard a little bit from others about that. What do you do?

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95