David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.
David Teten
AUGUST 21, 2019
Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Lower processing cost.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. For most companies it feels like innovation can only happen by exception and heroic efforts, not by design.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Unfortunately as we’ve learned from recent experience, using Return on Net Assets and IRR as proxies for efficiency and execution won’t save a company when their industry encounters creative disruption.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. Intel under their last two CEOs delivered more revenue and profit than any ever before. On the low-end, they undercut cost structures, resulting in customer migration.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
If you look at the spreadsheet, you will see that the “Required Rate of Return” is expressed as an IRR. Internal Rates of Return naturally compound, so a 50% IRR is 7.59 (If you plug in an IRR of 58.5% Internal Rates of Return naturally compound, so a 50% IRR is 7.59 times at 5 years and 11.39
David Teten
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
In my previous life as an investment banking analyst at Citi (Latin America industrials group), we used to spend hours deriving the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a particular company. We used to take medians and means of unlevered betas of different subsets of comparable companies.
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