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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less).

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3 Ways Structure Can Take Your Tech Startup To New Heights

YoungUpstarts

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. Look no further than Google and Oracle , and you’ll see that no company is immune from IP impasses. Get it all in writing.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

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. Are you landing a big sale? If you say in year one I’m going to do one hundred thousand in sales or, a million in sales or whatever it might be.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

Let’s say the customer is based in “Australia’ the transaction will be recorded as sale with say ‘Singapore’. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes. The relative loss in sales through lower revenue is less than the gains made through tax advantages made.