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 have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The explanation for the discrepancy is simple: large banks are focused on sourcing and scaling loans over one million dollars, cross-selling products to their customers, and driving down costs through standardized operating procedures and technology. Lenders can secure loans with equipment, a stock portfolio, or other assets.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. In addition, we typically ask portfolio companies to report on the following non-financial metrics: Universal Metrics. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). ff Venture Capital portfolio company. The best CEOs run their companies by their metrics. Users/Customers.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 7, 2020

They include: Current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the applicant.” Below is the email that we sent to our portfolio last Friday outlining our views on how they should approach this. We thought that it was important to share it more broadly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2014

No interest accrues and no debt is added to your company balance sheet. Just ask any business owner with payroll and operating expenses, who regularly loses sleep wondering if customer payments will come in as needed, on time, every time. Anticipating Cash Flow Needs.

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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. One of our biggest pet peeves is reviewing an operational model that starts in “Month 1″, and excludes anything that has happened in the past.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Any suppliers, manufacturing processes, and any other operating details also appear here. An industry overview.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

The opportunity cost of the money I have not made on crypto is insane because I first was talking about crypto in 2011 as I’ve been in financial services for a long time. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. Relatedly, I look at companies like Deciens’ portfolio company, Treasury Prime , or some of its peers and I wonder.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

As you can imagine we’ve been having conversations all week across the Foundry portfolio (which includes not just companies but also our ~ 35 fund investments; between those we have look-through into a few thousand companies). Stress test your operating plan. You should be adjusting costs now, full stop. More, not less.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 18, 2012

When I’m talking about our portfolio company StrikeAd, which operates in the realtime mobile advertising ecoystem I like to quote Mary Meeker’s statistic that 10% of media consumption is on mobile, but only 1% of media spend.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This person is an experienced CEO and a veteran of several startups, yet appreciating this nuance of how VC’s operate their business was relatively unfamiliar to him. 2) Differential Cost Basis – Suppose Acme Ventures III invested in the Series A of Startup X and then made follow-on investments in the Series B and C.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

Value means the stock is priced modestly compared to the strength of its balance sheet and cash flow. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” You can have the best operations.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

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. balance sheet) are not held at the business unit or asset level. Financials (e.g.,

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

We had a simple balance sheet by financing round model in our earlier master template financial model , but this model is more suitable for use in employment negotiations. Projections were based on dozens of operational assumptions related to pricing, production, marketing spend, etc. Participa.me

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. Watch your finances.

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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. Here are our operating expenses. Here are our profits.’

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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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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. It’s your operation, it’s your banking relationship and your processes and what goes into your process? Now what are your basic startup costs?

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