Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. 9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Balance sheet. Sales forecast. But if you want to be technically correct in your terminology, go ahead and call your financial statements “pro forma.”. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. Cash flow statement. Personnel plan. how you make money.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

What I do not want is a litany of presentations and tech demos with no discussion. Listed below is a standard framework that I like to use in board meetings along with some sample reports that help guide the discussion and allow directors to review performance. By no means is this meant to be an exhaustive list.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Much has changed in the past four months of the technology startup world and how outsiders value the business. We do this in our consumer lives with everything ranging from housing purchases to public stocks. So if your fund raising isn’t moving consider lowering price to shore up your balance sheet and reduce risk.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. You can still put together a quick dashboard that will allow Jim and Bob to do a quick review of the data and make smarter decisions about how to invest their limited budget on digital upgrades. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. A quick best practice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s review all of our existing investments. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. We need some visibility. Summary version?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Among the most interesting is Stash’s “stock back” program, which is essentially an alternative form of rewards. Thanks for signing up. in addition to home ownership.

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