Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

All principals and employees add value. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

All principals and employees add value. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

All principals and employees add value. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

All principals and employees add value. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337