Acquisition Balance Sheet Business Model Metrics 
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. Yet most entrepreneurs and their VC’s make startups use financial models and spreadsheets that actually hinder their success. Managing the Business. Here’s why.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The corollary for an enterprise is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.
David Teten
AUGUST 6, 2015
It’s misleadingly precise to have two digits to the right of the decimal in a CAC/LTV multiple for year 3 of your forecast (“Customer Acquisition Cost”/”LifeTime Value of Customer”). A good model needs to factor in cash collections, disbursements, and other working capital considerations with a Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows.
Occam's Razor
MAY 2, 2017
People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ? There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). I am going to pick a whole bunch of different businesses (15 in all!), If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 21, 2017
Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”.
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