The underlying theme of the Shark Tank TV series is for either the investors (called Sharks) or the entrepreneurs (pitching their business) to convince the other side to accept the valuation of their business and negotiate a deal based on it. The entrepreneurs tend to come in with high valu...
Top tips from previous Shark Tank businesses include sharing your dream and vision, delivering the cold-hard stats, being open about why you need help, getting creative, and saying what you want and what you’ll do with it. It’s also a good idea to invest in some basic video tech that...
Brands like Drunk Elephant, Glossier and Too Faced have raised millions in capital, going on to fetch blockbuster valuations. ADVERTISEMENT “In today’s startup ecosystem, cash burn is very romanticised and popularised,” said Shamika Haldipurkar, founder of Indian skincare line D’you, ...
If you’re pitching to a room full of investors Shark Tank style, find out as much as you can about each one of them. At the minimum, you should be able to answer: Do they know your industry? Do they have any other investments in your industry? What’s their personality like? Quiet...
The “this will be a home run or nothing” deals usually end up at nothing. I’m not saying such deals can’t work, but I try not to specialize in them. These days, the real unicorns aren’t the media darlings with billion-dollar valuations. Those have become terrifyingly passé. The...
The Technical Genius Who’s Removing Subjectivity from Domain Name Valuations – With Dennis LastochkinAsk three domain name investors for a valuation of a domain name you are selling or thinking of buying, and you are likely to get... ...
However, more and more is spent every year on acquisitions, at ever-increasing valuations. 2015 was a record year in which $3.8 trillion were spent on acquisitions. AT&T acquired Time-Warner (still pending regulatory approval) for $86 billion, which was the fifth highest single acquisition ever...
The Technical Genius Who’s Removing Subjectivity from Domain Name Valuations – With Dennis LastochkinAsk three domain name investors for a valuation of a domain name you are selling or thinking of buying, and you are likely to get... ...