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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? For example, $500,000 maximum value to each element yields either a maximum pre-money enterprise valuation of $$2 million or $2.5

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1. Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. Call me when you’re ready to leave.” Sorry, brah.”

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008. Where Do You Fit?

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

socalTECH

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. What's your background and what drove you to start ResumeBucket?

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. E-commerce is a great example. We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S.,

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus.