Finance: Valuation
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Selling your B2B SaaS: why most founders leave money on the table
Startups For the Rest of Us
April 7, 2026
Exit strategy
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Valuation
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Fundraising & VC
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- 70% of SaaS acquirers are private equity, not the strategics founders expect
- Growth rate decay can cut your exit value by 8 figures overnight
- "Startups are bought not sold" is a VC incentive myth, not market reality
How to sell your business to strategic buyers for maximum value
Cameron Herold
March 23, 2026
Exit strategy
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Valuation
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Processes & SOPs
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- Strategic buyers model integrated value — not EBITDA — and pay far more.
- Industry specialist advisors anchor to average multiples; avoid them.
- Lock in required outcomes in writing before any process begins.
Wealth building fundamentals: investing, real estate, and crypto in 2025
Silicon Valley Girl
February 4, 2025
Bootstrapping
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Cash flow management
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Valuation
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- Build a $100K ETF base before taking any concentrated bets.
- Renting beats buying in high-cost cities — run the mortgage comparison first.
- Crypto greed kills gains; even winners hold too long and lose.
Li Lu's investing philosophy: study Buffett and Munger, then do it
Founders
September 6, 2024
Valuation
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Resilience & grit
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Competitive analysis
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- Only ~5% of investors have the temperament to truly practise value investing
- Extreme preparation unlocks conviction to bet a shitload on rare great opportunities
- Charlie Munger: Munger family money given to an outside manager exactly once in 95 years
When to leave your late-stage unicorn startup
Y Combinator
October 19, 2023
Valuation
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Long-term planning
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- Two-thirds of unicorns won't IPO — your options may be worthless
- Product analytics visible to employees beat any press signal
- Early-stage company with same revenue, lower valuation is a better trade
How to think about financial crises, markets, and investing with Aswath Damodaran
Noah Kagan
April 2, 2020
Valuation
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Long-term planning
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Resilience & grit
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- COVID is the first total global economic shutdown — all prior playbooks are useless.
- A company's balance sheet determines its post-crisis fate, not what happens next.
- Your biggest investing enemy looks back at you in the mirror every morning.
Three mistakes that destroy owner-operated company value
Bill Gallagher
July 10, 2019
Valuation
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Scaling infrastructure
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Cash flow management
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- Minimising taxes by hiding profit kills your valuation and fundability.
- If the business can't run without you, it's not sellable.
- Concentrated revenue and low-margin channels dilute the value you've built.
Cash flow management
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Understanding cash flow through four chapters and seven levers
Bill Gallagher
November 9, 2018
Cash flow management
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Business operating systems
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Valuation
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- Profit is an opinion — cash is the only fact that matters
- Growing revenue can destroy cash when working capital costs exceed margin
- Seven levers, one-percent changes, four-times valuation multiplier effect
How Microsoft does M&A and strategic investing, with Brian Schultz
Acquired
December 16, 2016
Fundraising & VC
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Exit strategy
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Valuation
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- Corporate VCs are incentivised by salary, not returns — founders should know this
- Microsoft acquires teams and roadmap gaps, not standalone businesses
- Build product partnerships first; investment and acquisition follow relationships