Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It has less focus on financial forecasting and a greater focus on the big picture. It’s not a fully detailed plan with sales forecasts and expense budgets, but a plan for getting started and then growing over time to reach your final destination. Your 3-5 year strategy may also include what’s called an “exit strategy”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

What are your forecasts for revenue, expenses and cash flow? Forecasts are evaluated as a level of commitment and a measure of your business savvy. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Financial forecast and metrics. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. See where your cashflow bottoms out. Show breakeven and growth assumptions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Financial forecast and metrics. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. See where your cashflow bottoms out. Show breakeven and growth assumptions.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Entrepreneurs typically have some sort of financial advisor in their back pocket when they start up, to keep them on track with issues like taxes, balancing the books and financial forecasting. Most are focused on their business, but do not have a clear exit strategy. Why/when does this side of the coin become more pressing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Generate a 5-year financial forecast from opportunity data. Build a long-term growth strategy and exit plan. Investors look for an exit strategy to allow them to capture a return on their investment. Every business requires spending money to make money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

This allows them to calculate burn rates, break-even points and forecast the company valuation over time. Investors are also interested in future investment requirements, time frames and long-term strategy. Potential investor return calculation and exit strategy. Immediate investment requirements and use of funds.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. Invest in your forecasts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Financial forecast and metrics. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. IPO as an exit strategy is not recommended these days.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Financial forecast and metrics. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. See where your cashflow bottoms out. Show breakeven and growth assumptions.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

What is the company's exit strategy? To understand and forecast your company’s staffing needs. A formal business plan is the basis for financing proposals. The business plan answers investors' questions such as: Is there a need for this product/service? What are the financial projections? How will you retain them?

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Business financials for most startups are less complicated than you think, and a business degree is certainly not required to build a solid financial forecast. Three-year projections are typically adequate, but some investors will request a five-year forecast.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Investors will expect to see your sales forecast, profit and loss statement, and cash flow forecast for at least three years. Exit strategy. You do this in the form of an “exit strategy” slide that outlines who your potential acquirers might be if you manage to grow your company and be successful.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

With regard to analyzing a given company’s financial model, that is a reasonable stereotype, given that VCs do not typically use financial leverage and financial forecasts of early-stage companies have a very high uncertainty rate. For example, some private equity funds are quantifying their exit strategy in a concerted way.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Practicing Top-Down Sales Forecasting. Unrealistic Exit Strategy and Multiple. “We expect to be acquired by Microsoft for a 50X EBITDA multiple” is not a good exit strategy. You should also demonstrate the problem in the market that your product solves.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson suggests creating a projected sales forecast and planning how you’ll achieve it, realizing of course that you’ll make adjustments to these numbers as you grow. She notes that if you’re considering acquisition as an exit strategy, creating and maintaining relationships is going to be key. Partner well.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

While there are common components that are found in almost every business plan, such as sales forecasts and marketing strategy, business plan formats can be very different depending on the audience and the type of business. A typical financial plan includes: Sales forecast. Keep your sales forecast and expense budget current.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

In that context, I offer the following financial projection strategies, from my own experience: Forecast a business that has plenty of room to grow quickly. Define an exit strategy for investors to liquidate their share. Investors have learned that simple buy-outs of their share by owners often become major squeeze-plays.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

So, for example, if you aren’t writing a plan for outsiders, then you probably don’t need descriptions of the product, team, or exit strategy. Just cover the key points—strategy, tactics, milestones , and essential numbers — with simple bullet point lists and tables. Form follows function. Don’t do what you won’t use.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Your business plan also needs to have a realistic financial forecast. You should forecast the expected cost the investment or loan will cover, and the returns it will generate in future. It is not possible to chalk out how you are going to spend the money without having a business plan. Venture capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

Your company’s sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow. The most standard business plan starts with a summary and includes sections or chapters covering the company, the product or service it sells, the target market, strategy and implementation milestones and goals, management team, and financial forecasting, and analysis.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Sales forecast : Projections of what you think you will sell in a given timeframe (1 to 3 years). Exit strategy : Needed if you’re seeking investment.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

See Also Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy. Covenants can include all sorts of things, ranging from a high level requirement that you prepare and distribute monthly or quarterly financial forecasts for the business, to detailed requirements that you maintain certain levels of insurance protection.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here are the components of the financial plan that you’ll need to include: Sales forecast : There are two parts involved with your sales forecast — annual revenue projections and cost of goods sold (COGS). Personnel plan : How much will you pay each employee. Omit this bullet if you’re not seeking any funding.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Basically, trading strategies fall into one of two categories: Fundamental trading strategies: When employing these strategies, you will study an asset’s fundamentals. In other words, you will look at profit and loss statements, cash flow, as well as growth forecasts and future outlook.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Let the investor see the assumptions you’ve built into your financial forecast. Include a forecast that takes into account your revenue projections for the next five years, your gross margins, the ROI for your potential investor and your anticipated exit strategy. Offer key financial metrics. Find a real audience.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first realized the opportunity, the formation of the business idea, the search for my supplier, the establishment and growth of the business, problems encountered and lessons learned, as well as the exit strategy that resulted in the $250,000 sale of the business.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Demonstrating to investors that you have a handle on key business metrics as they relate to your business model and forecast is essential. Next, you have to be able to show how much can you earn with your product, and how quickly—in other words, you need to be able to show your forecast. Describe your exit strategy.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. For example, if the company needs to purchase new office equipment every three years, then the discounted value of those expenses should be included in the forecasted financial projections. Anyone who has started a company knows that team conflicts are inevitable.

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