ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. At 11 a.m., The value proposition is well articulated, validated, and very clean. Quantum Arc. Discuss.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

If you are a going business with a track record of revenues, then the importance of accurate current financial statements cannot be overstated. If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. Careful about “hockey stick” forecasts.

Hockey Stick 63

Hockey Stick Liquidity Event Valuation Balance Sheet 63

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Census Bureau, in 2014, the construction industry as a whole generated $960 billion in annual revenue, and according to the U.S. Infrastructure: also known as heavy engineering, heavy/highway, or heavy civil, and usually encompasses large-scale public works projects, highways, roads, bridges, dams, utilities, and water/wastewater systems.

SBA 60

SBA Demand Forecast Balance Sheet 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For more about forecasting growth in these uncertain times, check out Sequoia’s “ Adapting to Endure ” presentations published in May 2022. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., We should all care about the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment. We had no clue what our market was when we first started.

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%. CYBER – Israeli startup Wiz reaches $350M in ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) just four years from inception, making it the fastest growing cybersecurity company in the world. Wiz is valued at over $10 billion.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Many blogs suggest you simply divide 1 by your monthly churn rate to get to a number of months of duration that you can expect to collect revenues from your customer. Thus, if your average monthly churn rate is "c", the number of months of revenue you will receive over the lifetime of a customer is 1/c. A monthly churn rate of 1%?

Churn Rate 20

Churn Rate Early Stage Revenue Metrics 20

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Google was not the first search engine, but it's the one that succeeded.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Techstars is probably the most famous accelerator but the idea of the accelerator versus the incubator because there is living field, because there’s this very early stage fields for them both. The cool thing is with the device like, that with the science like that, there’s a lot of early stage proving ground needed.

Incubator 60

Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

Small Business Force

JULY 7, 2016

” Be careful, here, because many small business owners, particularly those who may be engineers or developers think their product is so easy to sell, so “why pay big bucks?” And finally, it moves to customer service to support the early stages of product implementation.

Sales 27

Sales Hiring Forecast Salary 27