YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2019

But every year thousands of entrepreneurs become millionaires by buying and growing businesses without the startup headaches of venture capitalists, zero revenue, and no business processes. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. If you remove the owner, the business struggles and collapses.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.

Acquisition 124

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). The amount of capital (and therefore the resulting valuation) also sets the stage for the next round of financing for a company. Series B is the new Series C.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And that's when you open the Pandora's box of getting into process, procedure, methodology is the, you know, everything in the business running through that owner is the owner, got his hands on, you know, every deal, every sale. So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. 09:23): Sure.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 20, 2009

"  The problem has been that too-high valuations and too generous terms have spawned painful down rounds that squash the entrepreneur and his early investors.  up to $10MM in revenue.  up to $10MM in revenue.    And it is unarguably what has driven valuation bubbles in the past.  

Milwaukee 60

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Valuations. I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. I was approached with one sweat equity offer that placed the valuation of the company at >$5 million pre-money and before even a seed round of funding. The company with all the revenue is Company C.

Sweat Equity 41

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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