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

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They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. 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.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s In reality, these two domains require quite different skill sets (more on this later). Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics. This is a bit of an oversimplification as there are many sub-disciplines within finance?—?accounting/controller,

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

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Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool.

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5 Critical Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know about Managing Their Company's Finances.

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In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. This is more than just revenue or expense. What are yours?

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

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OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” cash flows beyond that forecast period). It starts with the complexity involved in valuing companies in general.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. And so it goes.

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