Do Patents Increase Startup Valuation? The Honest Answer to the "Pending" Problem
A trademark, a copyright, and a patent that hasn't published yet. You pick one. Here's how IP…
Can You Trust a Startup Valuation? It's Not About Accuracy
The right question isn't whether your number is correct. It's whether it holds up in the room when…
Why Your Startup Valuation Came Out Negative (and What It's Telling You)
A negative number isn't a verdict that your company is worthless. It's the math telling you…
How Do SAFE Notes Convert? Caps, Discounts, and What Happens to Your Cap Table
A SAFE feels like a settled deal the day you sign it. The real terms get written by the next…
Don't Reverse Engineer Your Startup Valuation to Fit the Deal
A valuation earns its keep before the raise, as your anchor. Building one backwards to justify a…
Milestones Are the Real Lever on Your Startup Valuation
Valuation is mostly a risk score. Every milestone you hit is how you lower it — if you know how to…
What Are Startup Financial Projections Actually For?
Your projections will be wrong, and their real job quietly changes as your company grows. You open…
Selling Too Much, Too Early: Why Over-Dilution Hurts Founders AND Investors
A "fair" valuation isn't founders versus investors. It's the mechanism that keeps everyone pulling…
Startup Valuation: Risk vs. Return, the Two Forces Behind Every Number
The offer came in well below what you expected. Here's how to figure out why, and what you can…
How to value a startup with subsidiaries and SPVs
When your business runs through joint ventures and project finance, the usual startup-valuation…