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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. Since inception this lodging marketplace (note 1) has enabled 825 million guest stays in over 200 countries with a cumulative booking value of more than $110 billion.

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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Steve Blank

Product/Market fit now has its own book. —— The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. This week the author of the business model canvas, my friend Alexander Osterwalder, launched his new book Value Proposition Design , the sequel to his million copy best seller, Business Model Generation.

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Mathematical vs. Economic Dilution of Startup Equity: Thinner Slices of an Extra-Large Pizza

Gust

Let’s get right down to business: Dilution of founders’ and other early shareholders’ equity in startups is frequently a subject of intense interest and debate. The simplest illustration is the first VC funding round of a new startup. Expert commentators including David S. What’s wrong with this picture?

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. By reinvesting the cash Amazon has created a range of business ventures, services and products enabling the company to be richly valued at three times that of Walmart. Asset valuation. By Venkat Ramasamy, COO, FileCloud. venkatarag.

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4 Tips for Growing Your Investment Portfolio

The Startup Magazine

Invest in Diversified Stocks Boost the value of your investment portfolio by creating a diverse, balanced, and dynamic stock investment portfolio. Here is a webpage for comparing stocks , stock analytics data, book values, debts, dividends, price performance, profitability, and more to help you get started right away.

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Include your labor value in your plan.

Berkonomics

Investors love it when entrepreneurs draw little or no money from their startups. But the tax effect would be the same if audited – you would owe tax on the booked value. It extends the cash available for research and other necessary fixed costs and gives the fragile, young company more “runway” to get to breakeven.

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SaaS Nomenclature

VC Adventure

Bookings (or “Sales”) – the total contracted value sold in the period we’re discussing (so a month to month customer’s “bookings” contribution is 1 month revenue; a 2 year sign-up’s booking value – the full two years; basically it’s what we hit the credit cards for for our new customers).

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