Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Creating a financial plan enables companies to predict expenditures and create an effective plan for incoming revenue. You need to examine your business’s financial plan and develop customized budgeting techniques that help you make healthy financial decisions. Effective budgeting plays an integral role in small business success.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Metrics such as discretionary cash flow or business revenue are used. A company’s goodwill might be worth 2x more than the discretionary cash flow, or the accounting practice’s value might be worth 1 to 1.35x the annual revenue + work-in-progress (inventory). When to use the rules of thumb for a business valuation?

Valuation 86

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Pre-seed investing should be super simple, so any signs of pro-rata rights, tranched financings, charging the company for value-added services, etc. As an inexperienced founder, you are very likely to take at least two rounds of financing before a series A, so the round to try to skip is any sort of second seed. should be avoided.

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Dilution B2B Burn Rate Early Stage 149

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?”

Customer Development 262

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 262

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2021

Almost all metrics you currently use have one common thread: They are almost all backward-looking. If you want to deepen the influence of data in your organization – and your personal influence – 30% of your analytics efforts should be centered around the use of forward-looking metrics. Predictive metrics!

Metrics 142

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. Even for startups, it takes years for a new product to become good enough to demand many millions of dollars in revenue.).

Balance Sheet 242

Balance Sheet Vertical Acquisition Revenue 242

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a metric to monitor how effectively a business is accomplishing its specific objective. The metric is useful for measuring the chances a customer would recommend your products or service. Employers use this metric to measure their employees’ loyalty. FINANCE BUSINESS KPIs.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important. Revenue acceleration is, too.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

I decided to develop a firm around these practices since they were so beneficial to my mental and physical wellbeing. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 119

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). Revenue Architecture.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). Revenue Architecture.

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. Developing the prototype of the Uber-like app for courier delivery consisting of the basic functionalities. .

Technical Review 163

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. “Too Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. 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. My name is John Bates.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

In the real world a big pivot in life sciences far down the road of development is a very bad sign due to huge sunk costs. identify financing vehicles before you need them. The course is free to UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford students; $100 for pre-revenue startups; and $300 for industry. – See more here.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Your new boss read that customer experience (CX) improvements can deliver billions in additional revenue. Doing so misses out on the incremental revenue you could be generating, and the big initiatives that do make it to implementation have a lot riding on them. You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. There is no free lunch.

Mezzanine 368

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 368

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Track finances early. Even if you’re not a numbers person, you need to track your finances. To truly stay on top of your finances, you should start creating financial forecasts as early as possible. Consider financing early. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider and plan for the possibility of financing.

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Forecast Software Review Bootstrapping Finance 154

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After many years in business, I’m convinced that none of us has the strengths and interest in all the areas needed for success, including solution changes, finance, marketing, and operations. This work requires market feedback, managing trials, and working with the sales team as well as developers.

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Metrics Early Stage Finance Programming 272

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. 3- Investing both time and finance Photo Credit: Jonathan Hussey The biggest thing for me is to understand what you're undertaking before you start.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Write your business plan and develop your business model with this in mind so you can avoid these issues. . Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A formal business plan can be a great tool for businesses at any stage of development—not just for startups looking for capital. Keep an eye on these important metrics. As a small business owner, I found these metrics to be crucial to understanding the health of my business from a financial perspective. Accounts payable aging.

Metrics 128

Metrics Software Review Forecast Small Business 128

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. But remember—in public companies financial metrics take precedence.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. Marketing should collaborate as a business function with sales, finance and ops, but you shouldn’t replace any of their tasks as a manager.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. This never existed a decade ago.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. They need to believe your valuation, based on current revenue and intellectual property, and feel the equity offered gives them a real return for the risk. He didn’t have any big technical shoe innovations. Display real commitment to a plan, with milestones.

Intellectual Property 352

Intellectual Property Equity Bootstrapping Valuation 352

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Class Velocity/Depth.

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Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 248

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. The Index added another $0.9T in Sept 2020.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Talk to your finance people: What performance indicators get attention? There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. million; Total revenue: $97.5

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using some key metrics called Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can help to manage and evaluate your company and measure if your service, product, or business provides something to your target market that is new, needed, better, more convenient, or cost-effective. Developing your company’s KPIs. Benefits of using KPIs.

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Metrics Management Miami Revenue 100

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

Entrepreneur 111

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

SaaS business metrics: why are they different? I was surprised today when I went through the NetSuite IPO filling (S1) to see that it looked very much like any Enterprise software document - not a single mention of churn or % of recurring revenues. Different models require different performance metrics. Friday, July 06, 2007.

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Software Review Metrics Valuation Technical Review 66