Startup Valuation

Prateek Mittal For a start-up looking to raise seed capital, there is always a question of how much to value your business and how much stake to dilute. In this article, we will try to analyze the various means of Startup Valuation. When we talk about valuation of a company, the first things that come […]

Startup Valuation Method – The Scorecard Valuation Method

Prateek Mittal In continuation of our previous article on startup valuation, here is another method which is commonly used by angel investors to value pre-revenue startups. The method is known as the Scorecard Valuation method and the key elements of the method are as follows: An average pre-money pre revenue valuation of other start-ups in […]

Startup Valuation – The Risk Factor Summation Method

Prateek Mittal Welcome back people to our series of articles on Startup Valuation. So far we have discussed a couple of methods for valuation of pre-revenue start-ups. The first was the Venture Capital Method and the second one was the Scorecard Valuation Method. Here we discuss the third method for valuation of start-ups, the Risk […]

Why Do Start-ups Fail?

We keep on reading various reports on start-up shut downs and failures every day. More than 200 start-ups shut down in 2016. As per a recent study by the IBM Institute and Oxford Economics, 90% of the Indian start-ups fail within the first 5 years. So why do these start-ups fail even though some of […]