Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Doubling revenue each year is a good target. Quantify overhead costs.

Forecast 290

Forecast Burn Rate Widget Business Plan 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Doubling revenue each year is a good target. Quantify overhead costs.

Forecast 369

Forecast Burn Rate Startup Widget 369

K9 Ventures

MAY 28, 2015

At K9 we invest in companies which have a clear/direct revenue model and typically don’t invest in companies that follow the Ubiquity first Revenue Later (URL) revenue model made famous by Eric Schmidt in 2007. I call this Revenue Development and have written about it before. >$0/month. 10K/month. .

Revenue 48

Revenue Startup Burn Rate Cofounder 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Doubling revenue each year is a good target. Quantify overhead costs.

Forecast 120

Forecast Entrepreneur Burn Rate Widget 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Sales and marketing costs. Facilities and staff. Technology costs.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. SOCO Games.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Sales and marketing costs. Facilities and staff. Technology costs.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235