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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

Datavore is a New York startup which is working to improve on the functionality of existing tools like Microsoft Excel by creating a visual display of the calculations comprising complex analyses such as a financial model. This is especially important for companies that carry inventory on their balance sheet.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

People, not just metrics. I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management. He wrote a book called High Output Management. Decades, not quarters.

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What's Wrong With Today's Board Meetings: Part 1

ReadWriteStart

Silicon Valley, New York). 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. What do those numbers/metrics look like? Here's how. Angels In America.

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ProfessorVC: Waah.Do I have to build a financial model?

Professor VC

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.