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Working Capital vs. Cash Flow: The Differences and How to Better Manage Them

Up and Running

On the other hand, if you receive a payment of $2000, that’s considered income or revenue, you’ll generate positive cash flow that can be reinvested in other areas. . As more people went out and bought cars and chips became harder to procure, manufacturers had to account for supply chain issues and resulting sales losses.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped?

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. We do hand out stock options. I acknowledge it was a mistake. We were hot. Until we weren’t. But still we made progress.

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In Venture Capital, Should You Be a Momentum or a Value Investor?

David Teten

The second strategy is Value Investing , a strategy which “seeks to maximize returns by finding stocks that are undervalued by the market…Investors assess a stock’s intrinsic value…and compare that value with the stock price. Sense of victory. As booms progress, more and more investors adopt a Momentum model.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Scaling Akamai – Part 1: A Little Fat.

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Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

BeyondVC

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. Using a back of the napkin analysis, most companies sell about 20% of their stock to the public, so one could assume that Salary.com is valued at around $200mm pre-money implying a 10x multiple on trailing twelve month revenue.

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