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What Do I Do If My Business Runs Out Of Cash?

YoungUpstarts

Once you have achieved a calm headspace, take a survey of your cash position: How much cash is left? If you answered “no” to #2, you need to scramble to get cash in time for #3. Purchase of fixed assets like machines, vehicles, real estate, or capitalized software. Stop founder salaries. Do it again.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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The Key Elements of the Financial Plan

Up and Running

Without a thorough understanding of how much cash you have, where it’s coming from, where it’s going, and on what schedule, you’re going to have a hard time running a healthy business. In fact, in our business planning software, LivePlan, the sales forecast auto-fills the profit and loss statement.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received.