Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 31, 2023

The distinctions between financial forecasting, modeling, and predictions must be understood and be asked by experts like Mark Hirschhorn for more reliable financial ideas. Using your chosen approach (top-down or bottom-up), forecast the revenue your startup will generate and the expenses associated with reaching that level of sales.

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Balance Sheet Forecast United States Finance 52

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2020

Your target market section of your business plan describes who your key customers will be. This is the total number of potential customers that you could have. Customers also value consistency. If you’re in one location one day and gone the next, you might lose out on repeat customers who think that you’re inconsistent.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This is because there are numerous benefits of being your own boss (higher salary, better control, more freedom, choosing your hours, etc.) A supplier could go bankrupt or an angry customer’s tweet could go viral, there is an infinite number of things that can cripple a new business. Figure Out a Salary for Yourself.

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Entrepreneur Forecast Salary Viral 124

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your customers will no longer be your customers. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Forecasted recovery date. Forecasted recovery date. Your customers start buying. Sales pipeline/forecast. How many months of cash do you have?

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

Like it or not, this will likely affect your revenue and enrollment, especially if you are offering part-time care. List an advisory board if you have one, list all employee salaries, incentives, referral bonuses for recruiting, and all such details. What is your business model? Reach your target market. Projected costs. Supply costs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2020

You’ll also have variable expenses such as salaries, travel, supplies, and other services you use to run your business. In normal times, you can have fairly straight forward expectations about how business is going to work and how customers are going to behave. To figure this out, start with how much cash you are spending each month.

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Burn Rate Forecast SBA Cash Position 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue.

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Metrics Retention Acquisition Salary 266

Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. We were going to miss our forecast by 25%. We put a management-wide incentive plan together, based on meeting certain revenue and earnings, where they could all earn back the salary reductions if we hit our new objectives.

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Small Business Leadership Salary Forecast 32

Up and Running

AUGUST 22, 2017

In other words, it’s all very well if you’ve billed $26,000 to your customers and only have monthly outgoings of $13,000, but that’s not much consolation if they’re paying late and your suppliers are demanding payment immediately. Forecast your sales and outgoings accurately. Invoice your customers quickly.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2023

Payroll often makes up a large portion of a business’s expenses, so it’s important to spend some time working on this portion of your forecast. That’s OK and the exact reason why you should work on a personnel forecast. Will you need marketing, customer service, or service staff?

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

Don’t set a sales goal or a sales forecast with a hundred line items in there. You’ve got a three year forecast with your goals, monthly for the first 12 months, and then yearly for the next two years. Think about big categories: salary, marketing, sales, rent, utilities. How much am I going to sell? What’s realistic?

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Software Review Sales Acquisition Small Business 74

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. 1 of MRR generates $12 of annual revenue, so $1 commission equals 1/12=8.3% The reps’ top 3 priorities should be (i) MRR, (ii) MRR, and (iii) MRR.

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Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Sales forecast. It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. Cash flow statement.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Every business is solving a problem for its customers and filling a need in the market. Who is your ideal customer? If you can show that your potential customers are already interested in—or perhaps already buying—your product or service, this is great to highlight.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? These days revenue is the best source of capital. Are you going after the same customers? That’s cool.

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Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

What a lot of companies or startups don’t realize is when you put up forecast together, it’s difficult if you’re a startup. Every single page you have on your website needs to have a purpose and needs to have a functionality for that customer or that visitor. Then think about how you use shopping carts.

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Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. What is revenue going to look like? You don’t want to feel Schizophrenic to your customer. A persona is not your most desired customer.

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Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

Just like large enterprises, small businesses need tools to help them create sales and revenue projections, analyze customer data, maintain product lists, and graphically visualize all of this critical information. Lots of small businesses need a reliable, accurate tool to forecast sales and demand for their product or service.

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Lean Widget Italy Small Business 90

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

million customers. The goal of model building is to prove that if you take all the baby steps in the right order, and you test out pricing and cost assumptions as best you can along the way, and you keep listening to potential customers as you progress, then you develop reasonable confidence that success is mathematically possible.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. Not just about expenses, about increasing revenue. Voluntary salary reduction program. Make sure for planned revenues you have "leading indicators" to know if you will hit it. Over-communicate with employees, investors, customers.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 121

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Follow the "gospel of cash flow" and it starts with revenue generation. So, the biggest focus, early on, is driving revenue.and then collecting on that revenue, the earlier the better. They help defray purchasing of parts, if you're in a manufacturing business or pay critical salaries and contractors if you're in the services business.

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Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. Your problem and solution.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2017

“hopes to attract $100 million in orders this year, on its way to $4 billion revenue by 2020. By then, the company forecasts that its total digital business—more than 90 percent of IT software—may reach as much as $15 billion, up from $6 billion now.”. Your goals aren’t based on customer data.

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Software Review Employee Australia Forecast 108

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). New Customers: People are still searching everywhere on the internet and SEO sometimes goes outside of the regular boundaries of just a search engine like Google/Bing/Yahoo. It all start with Acquisition.

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SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

From a philosophical point of view, I view compensation as the combination of salary, bonus (if any), and equity. On a public company board, for example, I look at other companies that we compete with and other businesses that are in a similar stage of revenue growth and financial numbers.

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Management Equity Forecast Salary 60

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. The trailing twelve month number is closer to $20mm in revenue. million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7

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IPO Investment Bankers Demand Revenue 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Now, the exact terms are a little different at every company, but the SaaS customer lifecycle generally looks something like this: Awareness. We’re all familiar with the classic retention stats: Acquiring new customers is 5–25 times more expensive than retaining existing customers. Acquisition. They make a purchase. Activation.

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Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 101

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Subscription businesses are hot because of their recurring revenue model. Instead of chasing after customers every month, customers pay you automatically. The compounded earnings grow your revenue quickly and you don’t have to spend nearly as much time and effort getting them to come back and buy from you again.

Metrics 96

Metrics Churn Rate Forecast Revenue 96

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Now, the exact terms are a little different at every company, but the SaaS customer lifecycle generally looks something like this: Awareness. We’re all familiar with the classic retention stats: Acquiring new customers is 5–25 times more expensive than retaining existing customers. Acquisition. They make a purchase. Activation.

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Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Founded in offices smaller than my parents grocery store, Fred and Maheesh’s vision was to provide a home for artists who made personalized products assembled in a just-in-time factory that today delivers a customized gift each second. With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 329

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I’ve seen way too many startups spend all their energy getting channel deals done only to find out that they don’t produce ANY revenue. Here they’re already carrying a bag with products from many vendors so while there at the customer they just have to mention your product and budda bing. Full Stop for you Brits.)

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Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

By saying this: "Web Analytics will help add $2 million worth of additional Economic Value by recommending specific ways to delight our customers and improve the way we sell" You can say that in 10 seconds. The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. I LOVE doing this.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94