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3 Ways Structure Can Take Your Tech Startup To New Heights

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by Gadiel Morantes , chief revenue officer at Early Growth Financial Services. Whether it’s burn rates, balance sheets, or P&L and cash flow statements, financial documents say a lot about your operations — and you need to be able to speak the language. A Jenga tower is a precariously built one. Get it all in writing.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

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Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Intellectual property : List any patents you have or have pending, and mention any core technology you are licensing from another company. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Be specific. Mention your funding needs.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies.

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Estimating Realistic Startup Costs

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Two essential lists: Startup costs normally include startup expenses and startup assets: Startup expenses: These are expenses that happen before you launch and start bringing in any revenue. Inventory purchased after launch will affect cash flow, and the balance sheet; but isn’t considered part of the starting costs.

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

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Then value the acquisition in the context of your business, giving consideration to the likely cost savings and potential revenue lift that can result from combined capabilities. You might consider intellectual property and real estate, too, especially where their true value isn’t represented on the balance sheet.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Intellectual property : List any patents you have or have pending, and mention any core technology you are licensing from another company. Do they self-pay or use insurance? Be specific. Team: Who is on your management team?

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research.

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