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- Feb 17, 2020
- 2 min
How to value your SaaS business
Prepared by our partners Finance PM Team An essential exercise every founder shall perform before starting fundraising is valuing their company. Why is it important? In short, to understand how many shares to give away to investors in return for their money. I tend to agree that business valuation is more art than science. Every company is unique; hence there are many factors to be taken into consideration. And in the end, it all comes to negotiating, being able to sell your
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Partner
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
Open Office Hours. London, Kyiv
The Blue Lake Partners are holding Open Office hours on a weekly basis. Startups all areas, and stages, are welcome to request a 30-minute appointment with one of the partners to discuss in an open format any questions or issues you are facing as a startup.
Completely confidential this is your opportunity to vent, ask for advice, moan, run ideas past us or raise a specific issue you may have.
Slots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To book a slot click her
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Partner
- Feb 16, 2020
- 4 min
Forbes about Blue Lake Accelerator
Blue Lake Accelerator featured in Forbes.
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Partner
- Feb 12, 2020
- 2 min
B2B sales for startups: challenges and ways to succeed, by Finance PM
Prepared by our partners Finance PM Team This becomes a habit to write an article for our blog after another conversation with a startup founder. This time we talked about selling to B2B clients, the challenges startups usually face and ways to succeed in this complex process. Here are some thoughts and tips. Large companies don’t always understand how to work with startups that’s why they prefer to avoid this type of cooperation looking for established partners. But there is
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