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Valuation Methods 101

Gust

It is one of the most useful methods for establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup ventures. Return on Investment (ROI) = Terminal (or Harvest) Value ÷ Post-money Valuation. (in The valuation is based on 5 metrics whereby investors add up to $0.5 Then: Post-money Valuation = Terminal Value ÷ Anticipated ROI.

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Why Success Shouldn’t Be Defined By Revenue, Shareholders, Or Even You

YoungUpstarts

For all the bad press Uber seems to garner, it sure knows how to appeal to its constituents and harvest unrelenting support. But many small businesses still assume the investor dollars they’ve harvested — or their impressive bottom lines — speak to their accomplishments. by Allison Conkright Engel, Global Marketing Strategy, Sr.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. And of course our Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. As hinted above, our ability to understand the long tail — often as much as 80% of search traffic — will be curtailed. See Page Value there?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. You need metrics because we’re human. It is a very difficult proposition. Are we recruiting?

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Does raising money mean you should start scaling?

The Next Web

You’re learning what the metrics that matter are, what your funnel looks like, and what actions you want your prospects to take. Clearly investors should promote the idea that startups need to have clear metrics for terminating the discovery mode. You need to nail your metrics to graduate discovery mode. What does that mean?

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3 Ways to Lose Money with Marketing Automation

Duct Tape Marketing

While marketing automation has the potential to produce big results (another survey reported that some companies are seeing a more-than-150% increase in revenue since implementation), the initial investment is costly both in terms of direct expenses and employee time. Not using the right metrics and not acting on acting on them when you are.