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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. Sources of additional capital – For existing companies: debt commitments, and new lenders. Can the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) be a source of capital? Award equity to employees equal to the value of their reduced salaries.

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Forecasting in venture capital

The Equity Kicker

Good VCs need to be good forecasters. Deloitte have just published an interesting synopsis of Tetlock’s Superforecasting which gives us some insights into the types of people we need to recruit and the habits we need to cultivate to be good at the forecasting game. cautious in their forecasts. cautious in their forecasts.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Later you will want to come back and create a proper sales forecast, cash flow forecast, and expense budget. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

An AI can provide recommendations based on user behaviors used in ecommerce to provide accurate suggestions of products to users for future purchases based on their shopping history. Applications : Supervised learning models are ideal for spam detection, sentiment analysis, weather forecasting and pricing predictions, among other things.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital.