Startup Funding Espresso -- How to Improve Your Valuation
How to Improve Your Valuation Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Valuation is a negotiation and not just a formula. Here are some key points to improve your valuation: Highlight the team and their contributions to the business. The team is often no more than one slide in the deck and rarely does their value come across to investors aside from that of the CEO. Discuss what each team member is doing to make the business successful. Show previous business successes.\xa0 Demonstrate past accomplishments of the team, in particular exits. Highlight milestones accomplished so far in the business. Most fundraises kick off with a successfully completed milestone such as launching the product. Focus on milestones that show value to the business such as new hires for the team, closing a key customer, or finding a lead investor. Reduce your burn rate.\xa0\xa0 This shows you can sustain longer with less funding.\xa0 In fact, if you can move the business to profitability then your company will be more attractive as it can survive market downturns. Let the investors propose the valuation and consider the one which gives you the best deal. Valuation is a negotiation which means everything counts. Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.Let\u2019s go startup something today. ____________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: \xa0 Check out our other podcasts here: \xa0 For Investors check out: \xa0 For Startups check out: \xa0 For eGuides check out: \xa0 For upcoming Events, check out \xa0\xa0 For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group\xa0\xa0\xa0 Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .