Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Do they self-pay or use insurance? Be specific.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. 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.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

(This is the second of three blog posts on financial models for startups. We started with a sanitized version of a financial model I had developed for startups I have run. This is designed to be a simple end-to-end financial model for an early-stage startup. Projecting cash flows for a startup is a guessing game.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

And it’s not just for startups. 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. Combine this with inflexibility and you have a recipe for disaster.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Investors, particularly those investing in early-stage startups, want to understand your vision. If you have gaps and still need to hire key employees, that’s OK. You’ll need a sales forecast, expense budget , cash flow forecast , profit and loss, and balance sheet. A vision for the future. An exit strategy.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

I had a few things on my mind related to the startup environment right now as it relates to Covid-19 and the massive market disruption that we’re in the middle of. With that, here are some general observations on the market as well as a few things specific to startup companies (relevant across stages). This feels harsh.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. You’ll end up with a long, generic statement about how your company is serving its customers, employees, etc. The company history section can provide new employees with background on the company so that they have better context for the work that they are doing and where the company has come from over the years.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Startup costs. Your startup costs will include acquiring your initial inventory, or the products you plan to include in the first edition of your box service. The key for startup costs is to decide what you can’t live without from day one. Key metrics. Personnel plan : How much will you pay each employee.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Every business has long-term and short-term goals, sales targets, and expense budgets—a business plan encompasses all of those things and is as useful to a startup trying to raise funds as it is to a 10-year-old business that’s looking to grow. Startup businesses. to profitability. Existing businesses. External business plan (a.k.a

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. Be specific.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In part one of this brewery startup guide, we’ll look at planning, location, equipment, and relationships. No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Dan Hughes offers this advice for fellow startup breweries: 1. In part two, we’ll discuss finances, insurance, and regulations for breweries.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 47:49) Brian on the letter he wrote to employees to announce the layoffs and the response to it. (50:17) 6,000, 7,000 employees.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

As I’m sure most would agree, Airbnb is one of the most iconic startups to have been formed in the world. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

As I’m sure most would agree, Airbnb is one of the most iconic startups to have been formed in the world. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2015

For most, regular updates can help refresh once-forgotten goals and missions, as well as help reiterate accountability for specific employees. Staying current and keeping fresh are all part of the “soft” metrics of planning for the exit, but are still important when it comes to not leaving money on the table.

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