Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. 3) Raise capital. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

Or, you might proactively change your business in a way that requires you to rebuild your dashboard to account for an additional revenue stream. The problem was that Groupon’s revenue growth was a false positive. Job postings can give you a sense of what key companies are working on and what skills and products are in demand.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9

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IPO Investment Bankers Demand Revenue 78

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

Executives are overwhelmed with demands on their time. There’s the story of an investment banker who arrives at his client’s office in the middle of a large deal. But they won’t cut an investment that’s proven to help grow revenues or increase profits. And you should be such an investment.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9

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IPO Investment Bankers Demand Revenue 60

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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