Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. The Wrong Metrics. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Well-articulated goals and metrics. Startups can’t hope to outspend a giant with a fat balance sheet. Build it at the start and don’t ever lose it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. The Wrong Metrics. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Well-articulated goals and metrics. Startups can’t hope to outspend a giant with a fat balance sheet. Build it at the start and don’t ever lose it.

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Balance Sheet Metrics Entrepreneur Engineer 120

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Management consultant extraordinaire Peter Drucker famously said, “What gets measured, gets managed.” Below are the five types of metrics every small business must rely on to navigate growth and profit.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Tie the P&L forecast to the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement and generate snapshots of what the Financial Statements will look like each year for the next 5 years. It required a small investment of time and money to get QuickBooks up and running, but it was a manageable distraction from building SayAhh’s core product.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

See Also: Fear Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back From Networking. In his various roles in the financial industry, Patrick McCarthy has most recently worked as Vice President Commercial Relationship Manager with Bank of the Cascades, which has 35 companies from the craft beverage industry as customers. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. The Wrong Metrics : Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.

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Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

But once again, Brian and his team showed a remarkable ability to adapt, and they did so in a way that preserved the health of the entire network of Airbnb. I mean obviously, we’re a network business and networks get stronger the bigger they get. It’s a network, it’s a set of folks within it. Because capitalism isn’t won.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. It is understanding what your numbers mean and how to best manage them.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

But once again, Brian and his team showed a remarkable ability to adapt, and they did so in a way that preserved the health of the entire network of Airbnb. I mean obviously, we’re a network business and networks get stronger the bigger they get. It’s a network, it’s a set of folks within it. Because capitalism isn’t won.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 10, 2013

Network with as many other entrepreneurs as possible, constantly picking their brains on knotty issues that you face in your business. You don't have to learn how to be an accountant, but you do have to understand cash flow, cost of goods sold and operating profit.You have to be able to read an income statement and a balance sheet.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In his various roles in the financial industry, Patrick McCarthy has most recently worked as Vice President Commercial Relationship Manager with Bank of the Cascades , which has 35 companies from the craft beverage industry as customers. Managing your own distribution is ideal. Metrics: Know your numbers. Is it losses?

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

What are the key drivers and metrics? Byron Deeter has a good blog post on SAAS metrics. How much needs to be shown in the form of a cashflow statement, and balance sheet? I like to have one tab with assumptions and one tab with summary financials and key metrics. The importance is what is behind the numbers.

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