Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. They just don’t feel the need to draw attention to themselves or alert possible competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. Finance where needed. When I first got into the industry it was 2007.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 237

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). Hmmm, “so who runs the company on a daily basis?&# “Oh,&# he responded, “we have a COO.&# The company had sub $1 million in revenue and was burning $850k / month. Who does finance report to? Who does sales report to?

Entrepreneur 286

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first. External Assessment.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

” Getting some revenue from at least 3 clients (proving that there’s value to what you’re doing) would be fantastic, but other types of traction and validation would help too. Advice For The Young At Heart Asif Khan Funding fundraising startup startup financing' Enter Competitions and Incubators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Most importantly we talked about my good friends at Okta who were financed by Andreesen Horowitz. Tough, but true. Never cold.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Bigfoot Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. And these are people with deep pockets.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

TEC is one of Canada’s largest and most experienced private credit firms, specializing in providing asset-based capital solutions to companies that are underserved or overlooked by traditional sources of financing, primarily banks. Are there new revenue streams you can tap into? The firm has made more than $4.5

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Due Diligence Bankruptcy Intellectual Property 158

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. .” I answered, “Deal.” Twenty years later, we sold the business, a $100 million, profitable company, to Validity. Matt was still CEO.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. According to research from JP Morgan, revenues from investment banking peaked in 2009 at $207.7 Underwriting. In 2014 Granger, a Ph.D.

Technical Review 154

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. Government programs.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. we had no revenue. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance.

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Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It has grown recurring revenue by more than 500% and deal-size by 276%. Importantly, we recently announced a $30 million financing that gives us the resources we need to build a global enterprise software company. For years I struggled to convince people that phone calls mattered.

Venture Capital 150

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Diversify Revenue Streams Relying on a single income source can be risky. With its potential to revolutionize various sectors, from healthcare to finance, staying updated with such trends is essential. It’s not just about demographics but recognizing their pain points, preferences, and aspirations.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

Cofounder 78

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 245

VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

Beyond that, they actually went back in time and looked at the earlier stage periods for these companies so we can track how some of the world’s best SaaS companies performed at revenue levels more akin to the typical Series B business. Companies in the study that scored 40% of greater had TTM revenue multiples of 6.4x

IPO 113

IPO Vertical Balance Sheet Valuation 113

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. Portfolio. (3). Yahoo Finance. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? What happened? anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 101

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

Thankfully, an alternative asset management company dedicated to managing your real estate investments and operations can be helpful if you want to grow your portfolio. Some companies also acquire properties on behalf of their managed REITs on an ‘all cash’ basis without financing contingencies. trillion in 2024.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The flood of seed-funded companies coupled with proliferation of seed funds willing to underwrite incremental capital into new and existing portfolio companies, has yielded a broad backlog set of “seed startups” with wild variations across the following three dimensions: 1. The bar for Series A has moved.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. It might seem logical that you’ll also measure the second most overused web metric: Average Revenue per Email Sent = total revenue / # of emails sent. Not revenue. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!)

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Phlatbed is unique in-that it is a peer to peer moving services platform that enables people turn idle capital into revenue sources. This helps eliminate waste, increase access, and allows people to turn idle capital into revenue sources. Phlatbed is part of the New Economy, the Sharing Economy.

Entrepreneur 102

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In As a result, many of these companies get caught by surprise when their optimization activities hit a plateau and competitors who have a true portfolio approach race past them.

Silicon Valley 167

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It isn’t difficult to find deals when building your commercial real estate (CRE) portfolio. CRE is one of the most lucrative portfolios , offering advantages over residential investments, although interest rates can be higher. For example, some investors may use multiple loan types to keep their CRE portfolio growing.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. Generate Real Revenue. Another approach to raise Series A is to drive meaningful revenue. average versus $4.9M Craft a Small Scale Machine.

Syndicate 333

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. Revenue increases or declines in your sector as a whole might help you think about and decide what measures to take to grow your firm.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 127

Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

There is a sharper focus on Revenue/Profit. Right then and there, your VP of Finance steps in with a, hey, how many of these conversions that you are claiming are ones that we would not have gotten anyway? I refer to this full attribution quest: Marketing Portfolio Attribution Analysis. AKA: Attribution!

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