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Assessing The State Of And Options For Your Business During COVID-19 Fallout

YoungUpstarts

This means: compiling a balance sheet, listing all of your assets, all of your payables (or “liabilities”), including what may become a liability down the road (i.e., A “reorganization” that enables management to stay in control of the business, but wipes out equity if creditors are not paid in full. Chapter 11.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Arguably a balance sheet investor has to be more mindful of her investment choices. I don’t think we are.

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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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Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make on Day 1

Up and Running

Before you hire a bookkeeper, start with these five questions: Have you ever managed books for a business like mine? For example, have them explain the principles of the balance sheet or the difference and usefulness between accrual basis and cash basis accounting. Be sure your bookkeeper is familiar with your industry.

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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 only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. Here’s how.

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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 only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. Here’s how.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.