Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In general, your cash balance on starting date is the money you raised as investments or loans minus the cash you spend on expenses and assets. If your cash balance drops below zero then you need to increase your financing or reduce expenses. As you build your plan, watch your cash flow projections.

Cost 150

Cost Balance Sheet Startup Intellectual Property 150

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

It’s a balance sheet where you live in the present and ask yourself where you want to go from here. Taking stock of all of that helped spark the change needed to get things moving. You don’t need an accounting degree to understand your balance sheet and build wealth. billion in sales in 2015.

Balance Sheet 189

Balance Sheet Stock Options .Net Stock 189

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

No doubt you refer to your income statement and your bank account for the basics, but the truth is most businesses ignore the most powerful financial tools in the accounting arsenal: the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. The Balance Sheet. An income statement is usually prepared monthly, quarterly or annually.

Balance Sheet 136

Balance Sheet Small Business .Net Finance 136

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

Finance 134

Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Banks often require strong balance sheets and steady income — the very luxuries entrepreneurs most often lack—before they will lend money. Moreover, the owner avoids selling the asset quickly under “fire sale” circumstances, which might result in a significant loss of real value. He co-founded Movota Ltd.

Balance Sheet 178

Balance Sheet .Net Cofounder Stock 178

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2013

Economic success is never guaranteed, but when you’re equipped with a strong understanding of finances, there is a better chance for your business to succeed. Prepare a Balance Sheet. Prepare an Income Statement Sheet. Prepare a Cash Flow Statement Sheet. Prepare a Cash Flow Statement Sheet. Making Payroll.

Small Business 149

Small Business Limited Liability Company Balance Sheet Finance 149

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

What I want to talk about today is one of the insider baseball discussions of our industry this past week: The odd fact of the $500 million financing round completed just before the company sold for a B. You are either bought for stock or for equity. Just checked their balance sheet. Was this a good thing? Think about it.

Valuation 316

Valuation Balance Sheet Dilution Term Sheet 316

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I thought it was a great description and encourage every entrepreneur who has never been through the sale of a company to read it. He’d asked us to bring our financing statements so he could look at them to come up with an offer. Len made the point that the stock and the options had a lot of upside.

Balance Sheet 70

Balance Sheet NDA Boston Stock 70

Up and Running

JULY 20, 2015

Most transactions relating to the sale or purchase of property, equipment, or other non-current assets are included in your investing activities, as are any expenses tied up in mergers or acquisitions. If your business plays in the stock market at all, you’ll also have to indicate when you buy or sell securities here as well.

Dividend 60

Dividend Balance Sheet .Net Merger 60

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

They financed their companies, to the extent possible, in a manner minimizing the cost of capital, planning for organic growth in the number of customers served and in associated revenues. Flippers financed by venture capitalists are more likely to hire executives having high level profiles and previous exit experience.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Stock Options Valuation 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We do this in our consumer lives with everything ranging from housing purchases to public stocks. But I would point out that raising money is an existential event and I think in the coming 12-18 months you may see loss ratios (companies going out of business or selling in fire sales) go up. The best deals will continue to get financed.

Burn Rate 150

Burn Rate Cap Table Balance Sheet Valuation 150

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

Sales Review -Detailed sales pipeline review by region -Key wins/losses – detail on the losses and to whom. Professional Services (usually incorporated in context of sales discussion for smaller companies) -Status of existing customer implementations and satisfaction. This is where the heavy lifting happens.

Balance Sheet 99

Balance Sheet Technical Review Framework Stock Options 99

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and mortar) changes prices on some items daily, based upon sales and competitive intelligence. The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. An item’s price is the price.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. Because in a recession, the thing that turns a recession into a depression is there's a shock like this, we're all afraid for our business, our balance sheet.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As the parlance goes, it’s the quiet ones you need to watch; Supply@ME Capital PLC (LSE: SYME) has done the unthinkable and produced a blockchain-powered offering that could truly upend capital financing. The process works via a “true sale” of a client company’s stock inventory to special purpose vehicles (SPV) incorporated by SYME.

Balance Sheet 290

Balance Sheet Stock Europe IPO 290

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Collectively we chose growth and the market was rewarding high growth rates over any other factor so we felt that we ought to bring in an experienced CEO who had taken companies public, who had led large, international sales organizations and who was poised to take Invoca to the next level.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. We need some visibility. Let’s make sure each has enough cash.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298