Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

One of the ways our VC’s kept track of our progress was by taking a monthly look at three financial documents: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. To be clear – Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements are really important at two points in your startup. Who are our partners?

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Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 298

Up and Running

AUGUST 13, 2014

A financial plan section with the balance sheet,  cash flow statement, and income statement are must-haves. With intangible assets, their value doesn’t arrive all at once, so it is amortized, or distributed, over several months or years. After several years, the asset will be worth less.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

So the S corporation splits the owners income into two parts, wages and pass-through distributions. But you’ll avoid employment tax on the income distribution. Each month you should be reviewing your Profit and Loss Statement in addition to your Balance Sheet to keep a finger on the pulse of your business. (2)

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Small Business LLC Nevada Software Review 87

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Your tax professional means wages paid to you through payroll; they look at your distributions differently. When you say OpEx, you mean all the money you’ve paid out of your business, including items that end up on your Balance Sheet. Your tax professional means only tax-deductible expenses on your P&L.

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Balance Sheet Differentiation Revenue Distribution 78

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

These are still very expensive projects for anyone to undertake on their own balance sheet. Although a few full-service distributed energy installation companies have enjoyed success (e.g. Novel ways to create network effects for owners of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs).

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Mexico Finance Cost Balance Sheet 218

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. A strong balance sheet will matter in the years ahead. If you’re a clear “market winner” like Stripe, Robinhood or Airbnb. Raise when you can.

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Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2022

Knowing your debt to capital ratio is essential for a business owner to see the distribution of resources and adjust spending and borrowing as needed. You can find these values on your corporate balance sheet, or you can calculate them on your own. Debt-to-equity ratio = (total liabilities)/(shareholders’ equity).

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Equity .Net Balance Sheet Operations 136

Business Plan Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

This section outlines your sales goals, distribution strategies, marketing strategies, SWOT analysis (your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), branding strategies and customer service plan. How to write a Business Plan: Sales and Marketing Plan 20-30 hours. How to write a Business Plan: Financial Plan 35 hours.

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Business Plan Balance Sheet Restful Differentiation 55

Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

Then they had a five-year P&L statement, balance sheet, cash flow and cap table. This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. It was an exquisitely crafted plan. Finally, they took the plan and boiled it down to 15 of the prettiest slides you ever saw.

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Business Model Business Plan Customer Cap Table 328

Up and Running

JULY 8, 2015

These items aren’t there because accounting standards puts them into the Balance Sheet, which tracks Assets, Liabilities, and Capital. It affects the Balance Sheet only. Paying dividends, draw, or distributions doesn’t affect the Profit and Loss. But they still cost money.

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Balance Sheet Dividend Cost Sales 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2015

To start, look at your balance sheet and determine where you spend the most money. Know Your Options. There are many corporations that provide products and services to startups, so finding the right one for your company may seem daunting. For example, do you spend a lot on infrastructure or travel?

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Small Business Balance Sheet Cloud Programming 100

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2017

Monthly financial package: This is a full financial package distributed to the board and executive team. It includes P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements. I prefer this package to be distributed by the CFO and not the CEO – it then becomes part of the operating rhythm.

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Balance Sheet Metrics SEC Distribution 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

How do you manufacture and distribute it? What will your balance sheet look like in five years? What is your plan for completing the development of your product and getting it ready to market? How will you generate awareness and close sales? What kind of facilities will you need? What does the product cost to manufacture?

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Business Plan Balance Sheet Forecast Distribution 228

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

If you don’t have a strong balance sheet and can’t hire more people that’s fine — but understand this may lead to slower growth. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Thus the trade off between profits & growth.

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Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Here are a few common distribution models that you may consider for your business: Direct. Retail Distribution. Balance Sheet.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The sharing of profits and losses is done through distributive shares. Another thing: You should address whether profits will be distributed regularly (like once a month or quarterly, for example) or withdrawn at will from the LLC by owners. You’ll choose these percentages in your LLC operating agreement.

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LLC Operations Distribution Balance Sheet 121

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Let’s say you spent $2,000 on email marketing and $5,000 on webinar production and distribution. The more customers spend money, the healthier everything looks on balance sheets. Total marketing spend in Q1 + total sales spend in Q1 / Number of new customers in Q1 = CAC in Q1. How to reduce customer acquisition cost. Conclusion.

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Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2015

These are the pools of money that never had prohibitions around investing in military equipment, but who have recently made a push to clean guns and fossil fuels from some of their balance sheets. The institutional private equity funds in the US that they invest in are barred from making investments in cannabis.

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Private Equity Balance Sheet Hawaii Equity 60

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

We always had very clean financials because we took it seriously so he quickly sized up our income statement and balance sheet. He asked us a few confirmatory questions, including how much salary we were each getting paid, separate from any distributions from the business, which was $100,000 / year each.

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Balance Sheet NDA Boston Stock 70

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

For a subscription box service, this section will primarily focus on product curation and box distribution. Sourcing, fulfillment, and distribution. If you don’t plan on outsourcing initially (as most don’t), explain how you will handle box distribution. Where is your distribution center? Legal structure and ownership.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech. In so many of the growth industries of the 21st century - Mobile, BioTech, HealthcareIT, Robotics, Social Media, Internet of Things - U.S.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

You’ll obviously have some data in a spreadsheet format (copied into PowerPoint) for things like your Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statements. Each board pack should have the history of performance over the past year, a comparison of performance relative to plan and your forecasts going forward.

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Startup Balance Sheet Forecast Early Stage 331

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The consequent increase in complexity of market, channel, supply networks and distributed facilities has rendered related planning more intricate and complex.”. See Also: What Is a Balance Sheet? Understanding these costs will empower you to better manage all the vendors across your supply chain. Inventory requires capital.

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Management SCRUM Balance Sheet Cost 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The platform matches companies in need of cash with investors looking for solid returns, and in the middle is a securitization scheme with distributed ledger technology at its core. Unlike others in the digital monetization space, SYME is a service provider, not a lender, and there is no risk to its own balance sheet.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

So they just leave it on the balance sheet and let the shares in the company appreciate by the increasing amount of cash reserves they hold. Outlaw lobbying, and we’ll go a long way to having a more equal income distribution and claw back the one percenter’s grip on the economy. Again, personal incentives shape behaviour.

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Intellectual Property Australia Singapore Government 48

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

This doesn't mean you have to become a CPA or go take a boatload of accounting courses, but, at least, learn to understand what's in a basic income statement and balance sheet and what they mean. If it was a distribution business, shipping costs were critical. This is more than just revenue or expense.

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Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Before I went to business school, I didn’t know how you debited or credited or the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Before I went to business school, I didn’t know how you debited or credited or the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Is it losses?

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

This can often be in the form of intellectual property licensing from a university or a key distribution partner who will be taking your product to market. A balance sheet is also often required. Some businesses have key strategic partnerships that are critical to their success. Demo and screenshots.

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Forecast Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

Dividends are the distribution of company profits to its shareholders and owners. You need to find Blue-chip companies having steady growth and strong balance sheets. You can choose the properties based on your deposited amount and receive monthly profits when they are rented or sold.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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Bankruptcy Offshore Liquidation Preference Balance Sheet 403

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Whatever the owner can pull out of that river is seller’s discretionary earnings, and that comes in the way of salary or a pass-through earnings to the corporation, in distributions, your car, your car insurance, fuel, cell phone, meals, entertainment, 401(k), travel, things of that nature. John Jantsch: Sure, yeah. That makes sense.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Managing your own distribution is ideal. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This number looks relatively low compared to $330B+ of cash and cash equivalents sitting on the balance sheet of the cloud giants and public companies in our global cloud Index.

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Global Europe Software Review 62

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? It forces TBT to assess for how many people think it is valuable enough to open an account, and is TBT then personalizing the experience enough to drive loyalty.

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