YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has caused many businesses of all sizes to re-evaluate their plans and pivot their business models. If your company has been suffering from losses or is exposed to risks because of this pandemic, you may want to consider changing your business entity. by Dustin Ray of Incfile.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

We’re hitting record revenue months, weeks, and margins. There are startups out there that are valued at a billion dollars, but because of employee salaries, assets, etc. And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. they still aren’t profitable.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

There isn’t any business without finance. In order to run a firm successfully proper financial planning is required that includes designing documented long term strategies and profitability models, sufficient capital and cash flows. Most importantly, market competitive salary must be charged. Infrastructure.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A university campus is a great place to meet people and bounce new ideas, many of which may seem to have great business potential. Should you wait till you graduate, get a job and ensure a steady (salaried) income before plunging into the often risky domain of entrepreneurship? Businesses take time and effort to build.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

But other businesses like law firms, contracting firms, real estate firms, will take hits, too. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Days 3 and 4: Prepare new business model and operating plan. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2016

Some argue the only way to start is to drop everything and jump in with both feet, while others recommend an overlapped approach to the lifestyle, including not quitting your day job until you have revenue and a proven business model. Startups cost money but don’t pay a salary before revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Don’t quit your day job until the revenue is flowing. Investors expect nothing less than a full-time commitment, even in the early stages when the business model has not yet been proven. Keep later critical financing needs viable. Keep later critical financing needs viable.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

The steps focus you on developing your business model. But they only require “the back of an envelope” to figure out how you are going to make money, how much it is going to cost to run your business, and how soon you will generate a profit and reach breakeven. Calculate revenue per quarter and revenue per year.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

People are trapped at home, they are not getting a salary, and they are afraid to touch another person because no one knows who is and isn’t infected with the virus. Additionally, “a startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. ” This virus is unmatched.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

In the case of the failing business I was advising, one of the founders had left a decent job and invested his savings. Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. Think of finance as the fuel of a car. And this is not the only example.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. That list of key starting expenses will include: Business development. Financing and cash flow. The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors. Rental expenses. Office equipment.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Below are the characteristics your company should exhibit in order to be a sustainable lifestyle business. The goal for a lifestyle business is to build sustainable revenue streams that are set up to operate on their own. Remember to factor in costs in addition to salaries like payroll taxes, Social Security, and Medicare.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. They also observe who is pulling his or her weight and who is not.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue. Board Control.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA. The space can host 6-9 parties per weekend, and they generated $350,000 in revenue last year. By all accounts, the Coop is quite successful. Fat Ass Fudge.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. No right or wrong answer here, but if this is your vision then it's important to consider when negotiating deal terms on earlier stage financing rounds. Seed Funding 3.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. Are we doing a business loan?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A business model must be created out of whole cloth, and generally it’s a compilation of assumptions piled on top of other assumptions. Every model has a happy outcome when a founder is trying to convince himself or herself, a team, an investor, or even a spouse that the venture ahead is a good idea.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 5, 2012

You salary goes up or your company finally starts generating revenue. Keep yourself or your business "young".try a business keep hiring young employees and letting them try out new things, consider new business areas, grow internationally or throw your business model on its head.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. I love talking to clients about how (and why) they built their businesses, pursue opportunity, and solve problems.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The start of a new quarter prompts common questions from start-up founder’s and executives across Asia: What are our revenues and sales targets? How much further will our revenues drop? Don’t cut costs just at the bottom level – reduce everyone’s salary by an equal percentage. How do we achieve our intended goals?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. How do you split revenue? Edwin: I know. Jason: Nice.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). We had the wrong business model. During this year they.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Both my parents worked as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur but with a different definition of a successful business model; when they made a profit, they could feed our family. When business was bad they figured out why, adapted and worked harder still. They were only accountable to one and other.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. Once you’ve done that – then.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Michael Kassing.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Once there is critical mass, lots of business can, indeed, happen. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing? How long can you go without a salary?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When funding levels lower, many would-be entrepreneurs prefer the nice salary and stability of McKinsey or Google and thus the market has more hard-core entrepreneurs. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Other Business Services. start-ups fail, he says. Educational Services.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These specialist companies were still small local businesses. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. This shift from general merchants to specialists was the first structural shift in American commerce. See here for background on horizons.).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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