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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. Two-f **g-billion!

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Entrepreneurs need to find a way to get traction (sales) without funding. It’s because pitching is making a sale and all sales are made emotionally and followed up with logic. Wait, you didn’t want to be a sales person? Stock Option.

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Life Audit: 4 Ways To Reprogram Your Life

YoungUpstarts

It’s a balance sheet where you live in the present and ask yourself where you want to go from here. Finally, we hired a consultant to keep us on track toward our goal. You don’t need an accounting degree to understand your balance sheet and build wealth. billion in sales in 2015. Program Switch.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process. A brochure is an easy out for you in the sales process without being rude. It felt like heresy.

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Flippers vs Keepers–At times earnings don’t matter

Berkonomics

Flippers financed by venture capitalists are more likely to hire executives having high level profiles and previous exit experience. The Flipper’s executives usually have significant equity holdings, either actually owned or reflected in stock options.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1: How to leverage advisors and investors as your extended team

Austin Startup

My private-company updates included new client wins, major client launches, big client up-sells, new executive hires, new marketing campaigns, challenges that we needed help with (such as a client contract renewal or a blocker at a client that was preventing them from properly adopting our nascent solution), new product launches, etc.