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Forecasting ecommerce multiples at exit

The Equity Kicker

1-800 Flowers, meanwhile is valued at 0.6x Apologies for getting a bit finance-geeky, and you may want to skip this paragraph, but a bit of corporate finance logic can explain the link between revenues, growth, and margins. They reported 168% YoY revenue growth in the Q3 earnings report and their EBITDA margin is 19%.

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Should I flip or should I build?

BeyondVC

At this inflection point, an entrepreneur needs to think about whether they want to and can build for the long haul (taking into account the risk and time to do so) or sell today (net present value of your potential expected outcomes in the future). At the end of the day, it comes down to two things.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. We are extremely fortunate to finance the growth side of the creative destruction we are witnessing all around us. The one fact we know for sure about every financial model we see: they’re wrong.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

To answer the second question and make sure you are building a profitable business, the key indicator to look at is the Customer LifeTime Value (CLTV). The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. Yahoo Finance. Philippe Botteri. Justin Label.