OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Budgeting in a Context of Uncertainty, Forecast, Early and Often.

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Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. E.g. Message match / headline match from PPC ad to landing page. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. You can forecast what you think your forecast + seasonal curves will look like. 10K / 1M = 1%. Are both created equal?

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San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Up and Running

MARCH 4, 2022

As you work through the potential revenue numbers, pay attention to what others in your industry make in a year. Making your goals too lofty may hurt your chances of securing financing, too. Lay out the methodology of any facts and figures used to estimate revenue or what your costs will be. Do they mainly hang out on Facebook?

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Business Plan Revenue Small Business Administration United States 117

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Pricing : Design your pricing so that will cover your costs and match the market rate. Be specific. Financial plan.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2017

Nurture forecasting. Seasonality makes forecasting more important than ever. A good cash flow forecast will help with analysis of funds available and costs throughout the year. Develop monthly sales, spending, and cash flow forecasts. Maintain your forecasts with monthly review and revisions.

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Forecast Small Business Administration SBA Curation 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. CMRR (contracted monthly recurring revenue) grow 100% y/y. FOMO was NOMO.

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Two essential lists: Startup costs normally include startup expenses and startup assets: Startup expenses: These are expenses that happen before you launch and start bringing in any revenue. If your cash balance drops below zero then you need to increase your financing or reduce expenses. I have an example in the illustration below.

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Cost Balance Sheet Startup Intellectual Property 150

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the case of most smaller businesses, it starts with a thorough audit of all expenses - rents and labor especially - and then matching those against sources of revenue to identify which are moving forward value-add and which are "legacy," expiring and running out of time.

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New York Forecast Matching Restful 48

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

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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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Yes, in making the movie Lego has mixed, matched and “Frankensteined” together a number of disparate concepts, storylines, and brands to create a new business form. A form monetizable with new customers and with multiple, additional revenue streams associated with it. And we can all learn a lot from their crazy creation!

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Forecast Matching Audience Analytics 48

epaley.com

MAY 6, 2013

Once financed, everyone at the startup should have a reasonable salary, but the real compensation for achieving the improbable is the equity that is typically shared between all employees proportional to the expected contribution of each person. Using revenue metric.s Startups forecast based on what’s possible.

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Salary Startup Equity Forecast 41

www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not. That’s a nice way of putting it.

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Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

If you have those goals in mind and you understand where you’re going with your business, you have so much more power to plan for them, both on the tax side as well as on the revenue and expense side for your business and cash flow management. But it’s one of the most highly-audited areas of the Internal Revenue.

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