Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2023
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2020
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. That should equate to an adequate valuation for a $2 million follow-on Series-A round, without giving away all the equity. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. .
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2014
In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?
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