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SayAhh’s Revenue Projections

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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.

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Why Gross Profit Is More Important Than Revenue

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We ended up talking about using Gross Profit, instead of Revenue, to do valuation analysis. Since we invest across a number of different themes, we’ve had to deal with very different revenue and gross margin profiles since the beginning, whether we realized it or not. We’ve been doing this for a long time at Foundry Group.

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Revenue vs. Income

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I’m tired of “Revenue” being referred to as “Income.” For firms, income generally refers to net-profit: what remains of revenue after expenses have been subtracted. . Call the thing at the top of the P&L “Revenue”, not “Income” Rant off. ” Confusing?

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SayAhh’s Revenue Projections

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The co-founders decided to divide-and-conquer, with Dick tackling expense projections and Jane tackling revenue projections. Jane asked Josh, who provided SayAhh with solid advice on setting up their accounting systems , for help in creating the revenue side of their financial forecast. That’s what you should be doing.

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Play Offense When Predicting Revenue

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One of the larger take aways for me was your insight on our attitude towards how we were predicting revenue. Prior to our meeting, we thought we were doing a good job of predicting revenue. The takeaway for me was that we need to take the offense when it comes to predicting revenue. KPIs for Delivering Predictable Revenue.

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

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Much of our revenue for the month had come from one highly productive though erratic undergraduate developer, Mike, who was working on a billable client project. It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. Before we had a chance to figure out what to do, Mike quit, citing a need to focus on his studies.

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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

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Primary learnings for the fellows include: Originating investment opportunities Conducting due diligence Syndicating transactions Executing transactions Supporting founders and portfolio companies.