Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average. billion of GE stock – about 1.5% In fact, what happened is activist investors. of the company.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why should a founder entertain this idea? In addition, they can neither issue stocks nor bonds. And even though an LLC is legally required to report its revenues, profits, and losses, it does not have to pay corporate income taxes on profits. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review LLC IPO Stock 158

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding?

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Risk capital takes equity (stock ownership) in your company instead of debt (loans) in exchange for cash. What does this mean for startup founders? A liquidity event means that the equity (the stock) you sold your investor can now be converted into cash.)

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny.

IPO 210

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 210

Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. This would arise as a result of a founder improperly “moonlighting” (i.e., Any IP created by a founder (e.g.,

IP 52

IP Software Review Founder Technical Review 52

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Wallflower – yours truly. Always seek input.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why should a founder entertain this idea? In addition, they can neither issue stocks nor bonds. And even though an LLC is legally required to report its revenues, profits, and losses, it does not have to pay corporate income taxes on profits. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review LLC IPO Stock 78

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny.

IPO 218

IPO SEC Prospectus Technical Review 218

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Founders vs. Early Employees To help with this discussion, let me start with a definition of "early employee." The first few people into a startup are on a spectrum of founder vs. early employee. Founders are likely not paid for a long time and have a sizeable equity percentage for early risk and having the concept.

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Early Stage Equity CTO Hire Sweat Equity 391

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

By Stephen Tanenbaum, co-founder and CEO of UGallery. I’m a startup founder and I spend more time at the office than I’d like to admit. Instead, my holiday wish list is a mix of unique services and experiences that you can’t fit in a stocking. Stephen Tanenbaum is co-founder and president of UGallery.com. Sound familiar?

Founder 100

Founder Arizona Cofounder Technical Review 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Here’s why. Why would they do that?

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Stock Options Stock Vesting Common Stock 333

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. In the end the revenue simply wasn’t enough to make a sustainable business and so we had to switch gears once more (in today’s parlance that would be a “Pivot”). Today, we call that an “Embed-Code”. This time we’d gotten it right.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 billion in revenue last year. Gamestop stock becomes more valuable than Google :-) Just kidding. First it was Fortnite and Epic, now it’s Facebook and soon other players will team up to reduce the revenue share with app stores.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. After analysing our case studies and CRM, we saw that 73% of total revenue came from these two segments. Let’s dive in.

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pitch: StockTrim is a SaaS API which uses a machine learning algorithm to look at past stock behaviour and project future demand to avoid the common situations of over-ordering, under-ordering or miscalculating delivery times and quantities. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Startup 103

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. The price of public stocks change instantly in reaction to news that is perceived to affect the future value of that company.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny.

IPO 120

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 120

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. The shares given out can either be common stocks or preferred stocks. ? Debt investment. These investments are made instead of shares or equity in your startup.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

That’s because obtaining a pre-money valuation for a concept level technology company in excess of $1 million is difficult, particularly for a startup founder without a proven track record. Under that scenario, the same $500,000 is only worth a 10-ish percent stake in the business, and the founder can retain far more control in the entity.

Private Equity 94

Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. 2020 was a good year for Zoom. Then there’s Bubbles , a chrome extension focusing on screen grab collaborations. “

Vertical 148

Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

I had lunch last week with Tom, the CEO of a startup that was quickly becoming a large company – last year’s revenue was $40M, this year likely to be $80M maybe even $100 million in ad revenue. to drive traffic to their site, which they then turned into ad revenue. Refactoring” organizational debt. the company had.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

Over a decade ago, when I was working for First Round Capital, we opened our doors for “Open Office Hours”—a series of open meetings where any founder could come in and chat with us for 20 minutes each. I’m not sure we backed any of the founders—but that wasn’t the point. We met quite a few smart folks. We had 70 investors sign up!

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Curation Community Founder Stock 126

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. So I can appreciate why public stock investors would be leery of Zynga and why the stock price has been punished recently. as of this post.

Stock 160

Stock LBO .Net Valuation 160

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect any real change in the numbers soon, especially with recent stock market downturns. Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny.

IPO 245

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 245

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

Due Diligence 271

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

After all, your clientele is what brings in the revenue and sets up the expenses, so they remain one of the most important elements of your company. A more numerous customer base, of course, means higher revenues and a bigger market presence, but it also says there’s less room within the market for the company to expand.

Valuation 145

Valuation Technical Review Exit Strategy Metrics 145

Gust

JULY 16, 2014

As an example, let’s say that I invest $100,000 into Company X and receive 10% of the company’s stock in exchange for my investment. Your $900,000, however, is made up of your ownership in a brand new company that likely doesn’t have revenue yet, let alone profits.

Stock 167

Stock Startup Matching Revenue 167

Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

The stock price of Wirecard plunged almost immediately and it took sufficient time to recover. The consideration Wirecard has agreed to pay is almost ten times the price an investment fund called EMIF 1A had paid to the founders of Hermes iTickets. So, what is happening now and can it have an impact on the European fintech ecosystem?

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Valuation Stock Acquisition 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

by Bryce Welker, founder of Crush The CPA Exam. These are: Revenue Recognition issues. Share-based Compensation. Accounting for Income Taxes. Revenue Recognition. This accounting principle determines the exact conditions in which revenue is recognised and accounted. Stock Option Expensing. .

CPA 165

CPA Stock Options Valuation Stock 165