Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. 42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And as you start to lean into this conversation, is how you think about your balance sheet, right?

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. But some will be saved. So what to do?

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

Your sales have plunged, or worse, your business is now closed during the shutdown. Specifically, if you have an ongoing sales forecast , and expense budgets linked to that forecast, then you have instant visibility for making quick adjustments to sudden change. . What your sales numbers look like in a crisis.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company? How much needs to be shown in the form of a cashflow statement, and balance sheet? ► 2008. (14). Analyzing each step of who comes to the website organic, paid, conversions etc [SB] Having a bottoms-up model is helpful. [SB]

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. ► 2008. (14). We drew $1.5

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. Summary version? My prognosis?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 billion in 2008, and $1.54 Food and Drug Administration.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2%

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

For consumers scarred by the 2008 financial crisis, those brands may be perceived as “safer” than fintech alternatives, but that doesn’t nearly explain the sharp increase in share of new accounts. Meanwhile, rewards for debit cards were discontinued by many banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Source: Cornerstone Advisors.

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