Berkonomics
AUGUST 3, 2023
You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. I don’t believe in paying the highest price to win deals. Co-founder discontent.
Berkonomics
JUNE 8, 2017
You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.
Berkonomics
APRIL 24, 2014
Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. So winning means they’re paying the highest price. This is a demo + a high-level deck. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.” ” (Zig Ziglar). Create scarcity.
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