ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2019

But the truth is most businesses ignore the most powerful financial tools in the accounting arsenal: the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. It breaks down the revenue your business generated and the expenses incurred. The balance sheet. That’s why they’re considered essential components of a business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

One is the “denominator problem&# which says that if an LP invests X% (the denominator) into “alternative investments&# such as venture capital and if their total amount available to invest (the numerator) goes down by 30% then the amount they allocate to VC will by definition need to go down by 30% to stay the same percentage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. If you don’t have a strong balance sheet and can’t hire more people that’s fine — but understand this may lead to slower growth.

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Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. A more mature organization may project future revenues based on their actual sales pipeline, with a probability adjusted percentage based on stage.

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Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The most common financial metrics ffVC asks companies to compare vs. budget are: Gross Revenue. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). Average Revenue Per Account. Paul took on this initiative after realizing how alarmingly little a P&L and Balance Sheet alone can tell you about what’s really happening at a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x This number looks relatively low compared to $330B+ of cash and cash equivalents sitting on the balance sheet of the cloud giants and public companies in our global cloud Index.

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Global Europe Software Review 62

Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

This includes financial statements such as your profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet, and sales forecast. Determines financial needs and revenue models. A vital part of starting a business is understanding what your expenses will be and how you will generate revenue to cover those expenses.

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Business Plan Balance Sheet Revenue Metrics 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. get out and raise money now because when markets change they change on a dime and capital completely dries.

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Balance Sheet eCommerce Venture Capital Acquisition 150

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

No doubt you refer to your income statement and your bank account for the basics, but the truth is most businesses ignore the most powerful financial tools in the accounting arsenal: the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. The Balance Sheet. An income statement is usually prepared monthly, quarterly or annually.

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Balance Sheet Small Business .Net Finance 136

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Financial plan : Investors will want to see your revenue and sales forecast, expenses, projected profit and loss, and cash flow, and projected balance sheet. Also mention where you’re located, your legal structure, and a brief company history if your organization is up and running.

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Balance Sheet Business Plan Security Forecast 90

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. Venture Capital. New company in Boston with a model called “royalty capital.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. Yet this system isn’t perfect.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. Intel under their last two CEOs delivered more revenue and profit than any ever before. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.

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Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

You’ve found yourself in a super hot category and – let’s face it – it’s still a very frothy venture capital funding market so you may have loads of VCs chasing you. Just checked their balance sheet. They have $339 million in cash on their balance sheet. Uh… yeah.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. The downsides of venture debt? The cost of venture debt capital is very, very low. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want?

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Covenant Institutional Investors Balance Sheet Warrant 60

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Here’s what they discovered: They found firms that quickly institute formal mechanisms such as operation budgets, cash budgets, and financial monitoring systems (tools that measure profitability, customer acquisition costs, variance from actual budget, and so forth) had higher growth rates in terms of revenues and headcount.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2020

Venture capitalists and early-stage investors have told all of us, founders are critical to a startup’s valuation. As a unicorn approaches an exit, the balance sheet needs to make sense. The action includes training in the full range of customer service skills that bring in revenue.

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Valuation South Carolina San Jose Balance Sheet 91

David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

We had a simple balance sheet by financing round model in our earlier master template financial model , but this model is more suitable for use in employment negotiations. Enter Raul: This capital table startup options valuation model was created with the purpose of valuing options for an illiquid, early-stage start-up.

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Employee IRR Startup Mexico 155

Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

“We basically doubled the number of unicorns in the past year and a half,” says Aileen Lee, the founder of Cowboy Ventures, who has herself become a mythic creature in the Valley after coining the term. Others, Lee acknowledged, may never see their balance sheets add enough zeros to justify the title.

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Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

And if your value proposition is built on providing a secure, dependable long term relationship for the customer… well, you’re going to need a nice looking balance sheet and big backers to convince the buyer that you’ll still be around in a couple of years.

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Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Dilution Bootstrapping 127

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Launching a business often involves dips in revenue, and a startup will only survive if it can manage expenses during this fragile time. Salaries are one item on a company’s balance sheet that catches the attention of some investors. Investors Look at Salaries.

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Exit Strategy Balance Sheet Salary Startup 167

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It wasn't pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market through learning, discovery, iteration and execution. Yet this system isn't perfect.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

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. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. This is, are you a brick and mortar? You’re muted.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

No, those next levels of competitive business striving - toward double digit and beyond revenue growth, real and tangible profit, meaningful asset aggregation, and toward brands, cultures, and reputations that stand the test of time. With your balance sheet? Does Your Business Have REAL Competitive Advantage? With your culture?

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Balance Sheet Jordan Non-Compete Aggregator 48

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They build on business assets and trade secrets, they often leverage "remnant" organizational resources, and diversification of revenues and customers is a sought after business goal is it not? Financial Strengths : Our balance sheet is strong and our cash flow is predictable.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6 Large corporations with a turnover of more than 1.5

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Everyone seems to know someone who has raised huge amounts of venture capital without ever putting together even back of the envelope projections. Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company? How much needs to be shown in the form of a cashflow statement, and balance sheet?

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. So what to do?

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 31, 2005

Revenue, product, management, both? What is the company’s market cap and how much cash is on their balance sheet? In many cases, an acquirer may already know who they want to buy, but will still talk to other players to fully understand the market and the competitive landscape and to use you as negotiating leverage.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 23, 2003

The ultimate way to create value is to have a real business with real cash flow and a strong balance sheet where you can show your potential acquirer that you do not need any other sources of funding besides self-sustaining growth. Typically, these types of exits result from already existing, revenue-generating business relationships.

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