Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2020

Until your customers pay their invoices, you can’t pay your bills. So, if you’re doing a ton of business, but your customers are slow to pay on their invoices, you might still have cash flow problems. Your accounts receivable is listed as a “current asset” on your balance sheet. Watch your accounts receivable.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. It tells you how much you need to earn per customer to run a profitable company. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. Table of contents What is ecommerce customer acquisition cost?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

One of the ways our VC’s kept track of our progress was by taking a monthly look at three financial documents: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. To be clear – Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements are really important at two points in your startup.

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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 more mature organization may project future revenues based on their actual sales pipeline, with a probability adjusted percentage based on stage.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Like in the example above, you can easily compare your revenue and sales to identify specific buying trends month-to-month. Customer interest. Possibly the most important aspect of what you should be looking for is overall customer interest. This isn’t a straightforward numerical metric and is relatively complicated to define.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Describe the problem your potential customers have. Describe your solution to the problem—this is your product or service (how does it solve your customer’s problem?). Describe your competitive advantage (talk about how your customers are solving their problem currently as well). Projected Balance Sheet.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A financial plan with a Sales Forecast, Profit & Loss , Cash Flow Forecast , and Balance Sheet. Performance tracking to compare ACTUAL financial results with your planned financials and other key metrics. You also want to think about some other metrics to forecast, and then measure against actual results.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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). Now let’s cover those nuances I mentioned.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

An often overlooked purpose of a business plan is as a tool to define success metrics. This includes financial statements such as your profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet, and sales forecast. Determines financial needs and revenue models. A business plan is essential for any entrepreneur or small business.

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Business Plan Balance Sheet Revenue Metrics 150

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Then you’ll think through your ideal customer , your competition , and your opportunities for growth. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. Be specific. Financial plan.

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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. On the low-end, they undercut cost structures, resulting in customer migration.

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Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

The excerpts, which appeared first at Inc.com , highlight the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in our book. Assuming you know what the customer wants. Founders, presuming they know their customers, assume they know all the features customers need. Focusing on the launch date.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. He instructed me to call the potential customer instead and ask for a meeting. But just putting a customer reference list in a data room? It felt like heresy.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

David Teten

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

He builds custom financial models for clients and is reachable at New Prospect Ventures. The model outputs standard financial statements and key operating metrics based on a wide range of user inputs, and is highly customizable and entirely transparent. The Income Statement sheet allows you to model expenses and revenues as they occur.

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Balance Sheet Startup Equity Valuation 154

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Some will demonstrate strategically justifiable metrics and have fantastic ‘up round’ exits; others may see liquidation preferences kick in which will negatively impact founders and employees; others may fulfill the adage “IPO is the new down round” , which has been the case for more than half of the public companies on our list. “We

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” A multiple is a company value divided by a metric. cash flows beyond that forecast period).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Dick and Jane had limited formal business accounting experience, but they both knew how to balance a checkbook. Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. customer behavior, support inquiries, marketing analytics). Build a financial model that forecasts the P&L. historical data).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. Your problem and solution.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Every business is solving a problem for its customers and filling a need in the market. Who is your ideal customer? If you can show that your potential customers are already interested in—or perhaps already buying—your product or service, this is great to highlight. Read more ». Read more ».

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. At Loudcloud, when the dot com bubble burst and subsequently sent most of our customers into bankruptcy, it crippled our business and devastated our balance sheet.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Summarize the problem you are solving for customers, your solution, the target market, the founding team, and financial forecast highlights. Describe the problem that you solve for your customers and the solution that you are selling. You need to know your target market—the types of customers you are looking for—and how it’s changing.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

This doesn't mean you have to become a CPA or go take a boatload of accounting courses, but, at least, learn to understand what's in a basic income statement and balance sheet and what they mean. Follow the "gospel of cash flow" and it starts with revenue generation. This is more than just revenue or expense.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 10, 2013

Did you really understand how much you needed to know about marketing, sales, operations, finance and customer support, just to name a few. You don't have to learn how to be an accountant, but you do have to understand cash flow, cost of goods sold and operating profit.You have to be able to read an income statement and a balance sheet.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Then you’ll think through your ideal customer, your competition, and your opportunities for growth. This section of your business plan describes what services you provide and how they benefit your customers. Key customers.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Breweries don’t really win customers with one beer, but they can lose customers with one beer.”. Relationships.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 23, 2003

” My answer is quite simple-every company we invest in must have IPO potential (IPO potential as defined by non-bubble metrics) but along the way if someone makes an offer for the company because it is an attractive, rapid growth business, we can evaluate it appropriately. That is a losing proposition.

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Exit Strategy Balance Sheet IPO Valuation 68

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

You should have a good solid executive summary, you should have full financials, and that means a projected balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. If you don’t have any existing customers yet talk about perspective customers. That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. Are you saving them time?

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. People, not just metrics. Your customers and your investors like partners? No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

In my experience, I saw that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). As a serial entrepreneur turned educator, this didn’t make sense to me.

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Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 253

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. BC: Exactly, Reid.

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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. BC: Exactly, Reid.

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