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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Gust

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

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. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.

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Non Recurring Revenue Businesses

Rob Go

The assumption here is that that increased value is NPV positive based on other potential uses of the capital that you could have gotten up front. Higher potential LTV: The argument that over time, you’ll be able to extract more value from a customer than you would have if they paid it all up front. Cars are a good example of this.

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Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

VC Cafe

In simple words, SRC claims that before impact investing existed, we measured the attractiveness of an investment opportunity simply by measuring its NPV/Future cashflows/ profit potential. SRC puts this framework to practice in Social Finance, a social impact investment firm he founded to manage his philanthropic activities.