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

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. For all of these, the metrics and growth need to be the result of legitimate PMF and execution, not tricks. (If For a marketplace or ecommerce business, you need to be doing well north of $5M in annual revenue or GMV to get an A round done.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. Partly what I’m getting is a lot of people want to sell their business, but it’s actually very difficult for somebody to even valuate it. That part of it was great.