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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I hired several branding agencies to help us with brainstorms and ideation sessions, but none of them worked out. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. #10- Combination of two words. Photo Credit: Keval Baxi. Originally, Codal was called CMS Central.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. Modista had only had modest revenue to date (~5K) and had by no means gotten to the point where it was having an impact on the revenues of Like.com. Long story short, the lawsuit torpedoed Modista’s financing.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Now the group is looking for moremoney: they want enough to last for a year, and maybe to hire acouple friends. You dont have to spend time on bureaucraticstuff, because you havent hired any bureaucrats yet.