Gust
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. It is one of the useful methods for establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup ventures. million ÷ 20X.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap.
BeyondVC
APRIL 12, 2005
Combine this relative value with the fact that many tech companies, particularly large software companies, derive 50-70% of their revenue from annual recurring maintenance and you have an opportunity to buy out many of these businesses due to their predictable cash flow. for a company then no public software company is sacred.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Currently, most ecommerce businesses have IT staff constantly running manual tests to confirm that their site is operating properly, or they manually create expensive software to run these tests. Takeaway lesson: Accepting private equity funding is almost assuredly going to involve extensive contractual terms.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
The ten questions that make up the core of the Gust executive summary (and that in turn comprise the bulk of the ‘One Pager’ that investors print out for screening and review sessions) are only the distilled tip of the iceberg.
BeyondVC
APRIL 12, 2005
Combine this relative value with the fact that many tech companies, particularly large software companies, derive 50-70% of their revenue from annual recurring maintenance and you have an opportunity to buy out many of these businesses due to their predictable cash flow. for a company then no public software company is sacred.
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