Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? All principals and employees add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Startup valuation, under no circumstances, can be described as a simple affair. While valuing a publicly traded company is more or less straightforward, the case with a rarely profit making startup is not quite the same. Here are several factors that are taken into account while these startups are evaluated.

Pre-Money Valuation 124

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Sweat Equity Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? All principals and employees add value.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? All principals and employees add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? All principals and employees add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.   Most often, investors who are interested in a company raise this issue first to measure the company’s response to a market value offer. times at 5 years and 11.39

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68