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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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Venture Debt 101

Up and Running

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. The cost of venture debt capital is very, very low. There are a wide range of options for finance, but one of the more common choices is venture debt.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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You should have a good solid executive summary, you should have full financials, and that means a projected balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. I don’t know what it’s going to cost.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

Ensure money is transferred to low cost tax markets as a high cost tax market expense. Another major trick is basing regional managers in these low cost tax markets to ‘approve strategy’ and ‘brand related’ decisions in order to justify the intellectual property rights payments and revenue shifting.