Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

In finance, the income approach describes a method of valuing a company using the concepts of the time value of money. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach).

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

In simple words, SRC claims that before impact investing existed, we measured the attractiveness of an investment opportunity simply by measuring its NPV/Future cashflows/ profit potential. SRC puts this framework to practice in Social Finance, a social impact investment firm he founded to manage his philanthropic activities.

Private Equity 134

Private Equity NPV Israel Kenya 134

Rob Go

MAY 26, 2016

The assumption here is that that increased value is NPV positive based on other potential uses of the capital that you could have gotten up front. Higher potential LTV: The argument that over time, you’ll be able to extract more value from a customer than you would have if they paid it all up front. Cars are a good example of this.

Revenue 53

Revenue NPV Valuation Forecast 53