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 >>

So you could do that with $5,000 or something, as opposed to $20,000 for an equity financing. Chris : The basic idea is that, especially in a seed stage round, you have so little other information to go on – you don’t have revenues, you don’t have a product in the market, you don’t have all these other things. Prerequisites. Outline. MORE >>

Fred Wilson (USV) has his normal MBA Mondays series with a guest post from Andy Sack titled Revenue Based Financing.  It’s an advertorial for Andy’s firm Lighter Capital  but is a really good explanation of how revenue based financing works. Today, we have three great ones. 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 >>

How many do you suppose produce any revenue? How many do you suppose produce enough revenue that, after hosting and marketing expenses, they result in a profitable company where the owner doesn't need a day job? Tags: Essays customers feedback finance investment pricing sales Short-sighted, no? But you're still not listening. MORE >>