When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. Finance Fridays accounting system finance fridayshistorical data). MORE >>

The Kauffman Foundation released today a new study by Martin Kenney, Don Patton, and Jay Ritter on the employment and revenue growth of all companies that have made initial public offerings over the past 14 years. The new contributions from this study pertain to post-IPO revenue and jobs. Capitalism Economic Recovery Finance MORE >>

While Jane was building SayAhh’s revenue projections , Dick focused his attention on building the expense side of the projections. It is simple in that it forecasts how much cash will be coming in the door (revenues + equity financing + debt financing) and then subtracts from that amount how much cash is expected to be going out the door. MORE >>

If it’s just a matter of pouring more marketing dollars in the top so you can crank out more revenue in the bottom, that’s a machine investors like to power. How-To finance investmentSome problems in business can be solved with money; many cannot. Finding good people is almost impossible. Marketing. And so forth. MORE >>

billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Overall, investors put $7.5 startups. That represents a $1.5 MORE >>