David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The reason is that the real value of the board deck is not (ironically) for the board; it’s for management to track their own performance. So I want to see that management is using a dashboard every day, not just for board meetings. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). ff Venture Capital portfolio company. Users/Customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Get your costs down, renegotiate your supply contracts and extend your runway. A seed company hasn’t ramped up its cost base. A strong balance sheet will matter in the years ahead. This is not a 2-month v-shaped correction. Raise when you can. Picking great talent.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In fact, your start-up needs are typically in direct opposition of your customers, as each entity works to manage its own working capital requirements. It can be a hard lesson in cash management, sometimes catching a young enterprise off guard. No interest accrues and no debt is added to your company balance sheet.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. This is especially important for companies that carry inventory on their balance sheet. Use an appropriate number of significant digits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Management plan. This section outlines your legal and management structure. There are three key financial documents of any business that go here: an income statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow statement. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, invoicing software, etc…. Financial plan.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 25, 2014

We’ve had a number of those in the portfolio that are – by the nature of having not raised a eye popping round – much less talked about. Think growing at the right cost vs. growing at all costs. But not always. Much less is talked about the null case. One optimizes spend and trajectory.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 25, 2014

We’ve had a number of those in the portfolio that are – by the nature of having not raised a eye popping round – much less talked about. Think growing at the right cost vs. growing at all costs. But not always. Much less is talked about the null case. One optimizes spend and trajectory.

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Balance Sheet Portfolio Metrics Cost 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam. The company also occasionally invests in startups out of the balance sheet (i.e. AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. As far as I know this is the most comprehensive list out there. Commercial and partnerships.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Generating multiple streams of income (earned, passive, and portfolio) is the only logical path to financial freedom in a global economy where half of all college grads are moving back home jobless and saddled with debt. Nor do they realize the cost of running a household. Parents must teach kids the basics of entrepreneurship.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We have a number of portfolio companies that are raising money. If you have a stronger balance sheet than your competition, you can push off monetization decisions and focus on product-market fit. For example, I have huge respect and passion for product development and the role of the product manager.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I want you to be really realistic about your personal financial portfolio and how you spend money before you make the decision to start a business. You’ve got to figure out whether or not you have the organization and stamina to manage all of that. What do you manage? You’ve got to be the payroll manager.

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Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

Their portfolio firms will be able to cut back on headcount and other spending and additional capital from investors will allow the companies to survive for the 2-5 years it will take the market to begin to recover. Later stage funds will end up owning more of their portfolio companies via down rounds and ultimately should see ok returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

They either had a portfolio company in market and weren’t getting offers as quickly as expected or they knew a friend in the biz who was recounting this to them in a session VCs strangely call “comparing notes.”. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You need trusted advisors that are proven in the beverage industry and have a decent portfolio of brewery clients. Managing your own distribution is ideal. Cash must be available to cover costs and offset delays. A startup brewery’s biggest costs tend to be the brewing system (e.g., he explains.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Panel 1: Creating The Right Deal Flow — Creating & Managing Sustainable, Replicable Strategies. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

You need trusted advisors that are proven in the beverage industry and have a decent portfolio of brewery clients. Managing your own distribution is ideal. Cash must be available to cover costs and offset delays. Estimate brewery startup costs. Start with estimating your startup costs. he explains.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup (see note 1). I was talking with an entrepreneur recently about this phenomenon. Why is this?

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

. “The affirmation reflects the resumption of the downward trend in public deficits and debt, the robust outlook for Israeli growth, and a strengthening in the sovereign’s external balance sheet,&# said Purvi Harlalka, director at Fitch’s Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. I need leaders who manage in good times and bad.To

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