Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The company sought to raise $125,000 for 25% of the comapny, implying a $375,000 pre money valuation. Unsurprisingly, all the sharks passed, based on market size and valuation expectations. The company was started six weeks ago, had no sales and no retail distribution yet.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Value-centered experiences move the needle (if your audience demands them). By collating key information in a framework, you’ll reduce internal feedback loops, improve collaboration, and empower consistency—which can increase revenue by 33%. . Make sure to update and re-distribute them as needed. If you fail, trust will break.

Audience 127

Audience Framework Differentiation Software Review 127

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Many of the creator economy startups have conjured different ways for creators to generate revenue outside of advertising, which has been the bread and butter of ‘influencer’ platforms like Instagram, Youtube, TikTok etc. This is where new startups can help. The 2021 Creatorscape by Influence ( source ). I’d love to chat!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. While it may seem like a tough question to answer, I would argue that most practitioners of valuation analysis would state “not very high.” It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. This implies a pre money valuation of $1.045M.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

The low supply and high demand is driving up the valuations and deal sizes. Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public. If you have <$100M in revenue, you’re probably going to stay private. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. recurring revenue) are illustrated in the diagram below: Lessons Learned – Ways to reduce customer acquisition costs Conversion rates play an extremely important role in your customer acquisition cost.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. 3) Raise capital. If you have one, please contact me.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Founding Akamai.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Unfortunately as a result of a rigid thinking process , rather than being innovative and leading the industry through a period of change, which couldn’t be stopped – it was a revolution of how music is distributed – the big labels decided to fight it. And what about the music labels? As options increase, attention decreases.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

While 7,838 tech jobs were lost across 120 companies in 2022, according to an analysis by Tech12 , the demand for engineers remained high with 13,100 open engineering roles. There are 85 Israeli unicorns, but only about 50% them justify a billion Dollar valuation, according to Viola’s report. Source: Vintage ). billion to $17.1

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. You are here: Home > Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Not All Traffic Is Created Equal.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To get marketing a seat at the table and prove that it can drive revenue and pipeline, we’ve become borderline obsessed with numbers. To reframe marketing as an investment rather than a cost center, we must connect all the dots to revenue—but it’s hard to do without the right tools and models to get started. form fills).

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B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. Dan Kimerling: There are a couple of dimensions. That scares me.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

This way the investor knows that they can get their money out because they can control the payment of dividends, and can wind down the company and distribute cash if they determine that there is no future in the company. ” The other offer saw money coming off the top as a percentage of revenue. I think that was a poor decision.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley Salary Dilution Indiana 167

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Revenue vs. Economic Value. That is a reflection of a deep obsession on Revenue. When your KPI is revenue, you are focused on trying to get as many single-session conversions as possible. Economic Value is the sum of Revenue plus the Business Value created by the macro- plus micro-conversions on your website.

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Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

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. Perhaps the nomenclature is off, but a distributor suggests that there is something to distribute.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Meanwhile, their seed investors aren’t particularly incentivized to get them a Series A that crams the previous valuation down. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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