Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Once you have access to a company’s financial metrics, you can use it in several ways in order to assess the risks that they might pose to your business. For example, look closely at their revenue and stability. Global Database – The Trusted Credit Risk Platform. This might include: Can they afford your product/service?

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify’s new BI tool has taken our speed-to-calculate and accuracy of MRR and financial metrics and reduced it down to a mere dashboard refresh with 100% accuracy,” said Jenny Leman, President of CareerPlug. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. Learn more about Chargify at www.chargify.com.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

An often overlooked purpose of a business plan is as a tool to define success metrics. By housing these financial metrics within your business plan, you suddenly have an easy way to relate your strategy to actual performance. Determines financial needs and revenue models. Position your brand and unravel your competition.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

Surely not using horrible metrics like Page Views, right? You'll need to work with your Finance team. Now do this: Total revenue divided by number of web_quotes. 3: Get the current "faith based" number from Finance. I walk over to the Finance department and ask them for the value of one TV ad impression.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Get instrument rated, and trust the 6Cs of Cloud Finance (more.) SaaS companies use different metrics to calculate renewals. Yahoo Finance. Mind the GAAP!

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. We are also planning to expand into a new geographic market, penetrate a new demographic, transfer to a new technology platform and put financing sources in place.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Allow me to rush and point out that this metric is usually just directionally accurate.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. I have a fundamental observation to make here that seems to be lost in the noisy universe of entrepreneurs' obsession with fund-raising: Most companies should not raise external financing. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits).

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Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. But a lot of people are very apprehensive and we’ve seen a lot of failures with companies like Blippy who tried to make finances and money with social. Patrick: How close did he get?

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2016

Netsuite – One single app to keep you connected with your finance, commerce, and customers. With the right metrics, you can turn data into information and capture your revenue. Fast, quick and real-time google analytics conversions and metrics – wherever you are. For Finance Management. Dashboard is one such app.

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