Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. The best thing to get is a “right sized&# valuation. A: It’s not best.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. Open-ended questions embedded on your website or in an email are two ways to collect qualitative data that reveals your audience’s pain points. Asset valuation. Your most obvious asset is the product itself.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Holiday weekend here in the US means links for you to read Playing Different (Stupider) Games The Other End Of The Valuation Stick [Kyle Harrison, Contrary Capital] – Kyle puts out a new essay (almost) every Saturday and I really enjoy his consistent and clear eyed POV on venture capital. The former start the work.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. Email & text on the comeback trail: The inbox has made a comeback for me. valuation) will ever make serious money?

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

What Are Your Valuation Expectations? But mainly we did it because these corporate VCs were among the only groups willing to invest at PayPal’s somewhat inflated post-money valuation, during the middle of the dot-com crash when traditional VCs pulled back sharply and other sources of funding were constrained.” ” (Rob Go).

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Over the past 18 months, the pandemic has reset these expectations, leading to huge increases in valuations for both public and private tech companies…not to mention venture capital returns that are far better than what we have traditionally seen! Read the post: Resetting venture capital expectations: is 10x the new 3x?

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

It might be a short document, often attached to an email, or simply a summary in an email. Introductions lead to requests for email summaries, not full business plans. Valuation, in this context, is controversial. It’s the first chapter of a formal plan, but you can also use it as a stand-alone “summary memo.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The only way to get an accurate value estimation is to hire a business broker to perform a business valuation. Whether you’ve gotten an official valuation or not, here’s how you can increase the value of your ecommerce business. Increase your email subscriber list. This detailed information will be important to potential buyers.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something — if you feel that way, by all means, please share your point of view on Twitter (or email) and link to the post. Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Before sending an email to potential investors, take a look at their website and see what types of companies they’ve already invested in. If you don’t have connections that can make an introduction, don’t be afraid to send an unsolicited email. Keep your emails short and to the point. Be precise and concise with your outreach.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

Here are four areas to look at in your assessment that can help you to determine if a particular advisor is right for your deal: Valuations Expertise. Your own valuation of your business might not be correct. Look for an advisor who lays out the details for you when it comes to determining appropriate market value. Tech Savvy.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

These can include webinars, email marketing , product review blogs, and creating YouTube videos. Rather than solely concentrating on influencers or discount voucher websites, spend more time reaching out to your demographic through affiliates from several sources. The more platforms you use, the better.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. Should VC’s really be impacted by public market valuations when the money that they’re investing today should be for returns in 7-10 years? Short answer – yes. The deal was done in late 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Adding free users or customers to increase valuation makes sense for a venture-backed startup looking to go public, but will kill bootstrapping. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 5, 2014

Dave’s note: Popular Bill Payne returns this week with a thoughtful take on valuations. Yet, at the pre-revenue stage of development, angel investors price both companies at a pre-money valuation of $1.5 Yet, at the pre-revenue stage of development, angel investors price both companies at a pre-money valuation of $1.5

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked away from deals where the entrepreneur insists on a start-up premoney valuation that is so high, no angel could expect to make a return upon the investment, even with a reasonable sales price for the company down the road. Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

We have previously made the case that professional investors demand more in the form of restrictive covenants and lower valuations. Without the VC guidance there would have been little opportunity to even dream of a billion-dollar valuation goal. This statement could be considered controversial.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). Ok, I get a lot of these.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2015

Privacy issues that come to light in the course of the due diligence process for an acquisition can also threaten their valuation. Many startups have learned that being young and small does not keep them off the radar screens of privacy regulators, and they can be vulnerable to costly investigations. Say what you do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. And look at the valuation creep across the board in the past year. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

After all, most people are good for a few introductory emails. But if you approach them with a very fair valuation and ask for a small check (say $10k, which should be nothing to someone in this position) I believe you’ll have a reasonable shot at it provided that you actually have an interesting company. People like to help.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

In digital marketing, you can now automate your content tasks, social media tasks, email newsletters, lead generation tasks, and SEO tasks. #27- Automation will boom Photo Credit: Nikhil Kumar As a digital marketer, I think automation will replace most of the tasks that digital marketers are doing right now.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

The last money has the first say – in valuation and in sometimes forcing draconian terms that require prior investors to contribute a proportional new investment to retain a semblance of their original rights and avoid dilution or worse yet, involuntary conversion to a lower class of stock. The newest investor has the power.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Semil asserts, Seed-stage valuations have generally been left-unchanged, and I could argue even they’ve gone up since the beginning of 2022. Valuations for the Top Decile of Seed Startups Have Fallen Less YoY While the Second Decile Have Been Hit Harder.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on. I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? million), but certainly also allowing the investor to put much lower values into each test, resulting in valuations well below that amount. The Method should allow for this.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Early partners or co-founders often drop out of the picture early due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal or email promises you made. This oversight can lead to the so-called “forgotten Founder” problem. Trouble with the IRS over Founders stock value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Adding free users or customers to increase valuation makes sense for a venture-backed startup looking to go public, but will kill bootstrapping. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Better yet, the valuation of your enterprise is often higher than if the same investment were taken from a professional investor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So just like with any other business, uh, in the agency space, the more profitable you are, the higher your valuation outside of the financials, there are some components that are unique to the agency space that go into, uh, what affects the valuation. Amanda’s Website. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

You can also hire virtual assistants who can perform operational tasks like reading up feedback email from customers and answering them. This helps drive your business valuations higher and can thus lead to a more successful sale. Gradually Build Your Business Brand. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At what valuation? Two emailed Marc Benioff directly. He emailed the head of corp dev to say essentially, “who is this guy who’s telling everybody he’s working with Salesforce.com. Have you looked at competition? How well financed is the competition? What is their market traction? How much are they raising?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re interested in selling a website you built from scratch, or want to sell your Amazon-based B2C brand, there are many different baseline factors that go into determining an appropriate website valuation number. While it’s true that valuations can get quite technical, the basics are relatively easy to understand.

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