View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

One of the key questions for me was how might Slack stack up against other great SaaS companies when it comes to average revenue per user (ARPU), and how ARPU and total addressable market (TAM) might drive Slack’s long run market cap. Revenue growth rate of 82% year over year. in MRR in 2019 from existing customers for every $1.00

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. Anyone who has been through taking a company public knows that there are numerous steps between the first S-1 filing with the SEC and the final filling where the SEC says “ok – you are ready to go public now.” You withdraw your filing.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

However, as Scott Krager points out in his post, the companies have vastly different approaches for generating revenue. You can read Krager’s article for all the figures (many of which are from Hubspot’s S1 SEC filing and from Moz directly), but here are some of the key differences: Hubspot spends $11,233 to acquire a new customer.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

With acquisition entrepreneurship, you focus on establishing revenue and earnings first, and then you provide a platform for a lifestyle business or major innovation from there. I believe fewer entrepreneurs would start businesses if they thought they would max out at $650,000 in revenue. Buying Is Better.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2019

As of 2018, “ since its launch, nearly 1,000 companies have registered with the SEC on 50 platforms, and over $127 million has been committed to campaigns. We plan to raise a limited amount from SeedInvest first, and then get institutional investors for the rest as we scale revenue.”

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

One of the key questions for me was how might Slack stack up against other great SaaS companies when it comes to average revenue per user (ARPU), and how ARPU and total addressable market (TAM) might drive Slack’s long run market cap. in MRR in 2019 from existing customers for every $1.00 in MRR from customers at the end of 2018.

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 100

Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R. small and medium-sized companies.

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Disintermediation Technical Review SEC Early Stage 72

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? Call me old school, but I believe in metrics like growth, revenue, and profit. They’ll even acquire customers at a loss for an extended period of time. Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

However, as Scott Krager points out in his post, the companies have vastly different approaches for generating revenue. You can read Krager’s article for all the figures (many of which are from Hubspot’s S1 SEC filing and from Moz directly), but here are some of the key differences: Hubspot spends $11,233 to acquire a new customer.

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Initial Public Offering IPO SEC Valuation 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth’s role there was to perform audits; prepare tax returns for Corporations, S-Corps, LLC’s, Partnerships; and bankruptcy compilation work for SEC reporting and litigation. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

But by far the biggest issue is that the very essence of public markets (and what makes them “public”) is that the SEC mandates an enormous amount of transparency, including complete quarterly financial statements, complete publication of the company’s cap table including all significant shareholders, and so forth.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Lobbyists also work through regulatory bodies like FCC , SEC , FTC , Public Utility, Taxi, or Insurance Commissions, School Boards, etc. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. You compete for customers on performance, ease of use, or price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Startup revenues come later. Many successful crowdfunding campaigns, just like many startups funded by angels and VCs, fail miserably due to normal business challenges, including inventory buildup, marketing, competition, and customer support. Don’t assume that any money collected from a winning campaign will go into your pocket.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

For founding teams we did not already know, they all had a product built and all had early customers. The companies we were investing in at the pre-seed level were doing as low as $1k revenue per month (non repeatable) though we also invested in many companies with much higher revenue too. The market had definitely shifted.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

For founding teams we did not already know, they all had a product built and all had early customers. The companies we were investing in at the pre-seed level were doing as low as $1k revenue per month (non repeatable) though we also invested in many companies with much higher revenue too. The market had definitely shifted.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 28, 2018

During the week, the SEC continued to offer warnings on initial coin offerings — with each pass, their language gets stronger in advising companies and their counsel to comply with securities regulations. The exchange has said it will reimburse customers for their loss. securities bar.”. an offline wallet). an offline wallet).

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. 4 dixon on 09.30.10

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Lobbyists also work through regulatory bodies like FCC , SEC , FTC , Public Utility, Taxi, or Insurance Commissions, School Boards, etc. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. You compete for customers on performance, ease of use, or price.

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North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 227

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press. Zynga’s trailing revenue is nearly $1.2B

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

In a bit of irony, last week when the SEC informed us our filing was accepted as being ready-to-go, market conditions were a terrible mess. This is quite similar to a lot of SAAS oriented businesses that may sign up customers for one year contracts and collect the cash today but recognize the revenue over the life of the contract.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

More than 1,000 customers globally use Pingboard to power their live org chart, including companies like GoFundMe, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, Khan Academy, and the Linux Foundation. It appears in our SEC filing as $5 million because we had $2.5 Image via Flickr A version of this post was originally published on VentureBeat here.

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Hippoland

MAY 16, 2018

Part of this is driven by how the SEC is thinking about regulations in this space. Just in general, given how cheap it is to start a company and how few pre-seed investors there are, I think it makes sense to bootstrap to some level of revenue traction before fundraising.

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Hippoland

MAY 16, 2018

Part of this is driven by how the SEC is thinking about regulations in this space. Just in general, given how cheap it is to start a company and how few pre-seed investors there are, I think it makes sense to bootstrap to some level of revenue traction before fundraising.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Custom work doesnt scale. The regulatory burden is much lower if a companys shareholdersare all accredited investors.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. Adding Ad Revenue. I paid him half of the Adsense revenue, which turned out to be about $500 a month, and he just managed the whole site.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). They are many more examples.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

(Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. If you don’t know your customer well, 99% of your assumptions are wrong. So how to target a customer in this world? Things change: Customer state changes. If you don’t know your customer well, then 99% of your assumptions are wrong.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

As a result, a “late-stage” financing is no longer reserved for high-revenue, pre-profitability companies getting ready for an IPO; it is simply any large round of financing done at a high price. You must subtract it from your top-line revenue. You should not pay a net revenue multiple for a gross revenue disclosure.

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IPO Liquidation Preference Valuation Technical Review 40

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

" Or, "Profitability, it is so sexy, just focus on Customer Lifetime Value, no, sorry, I mean Profitability." Now you might see 60 secs and 5 PVV, 150 secs and 20 PVV, 98 secs and 5 PVV. Conversion Rate is money, sometimes directly as revenue and other times indirectly via Leads collected.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Either way, user feedback is not about asking your customers how to solve problems. Three techniques to write better copy: Surveys – learn customers’ challenges and questions via surveys. Spying – spy on customers by putting yourself in their shoes. Can the change alter customer behavior? performance.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Customers have shown again and again that they really love free stuff. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

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