OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Our Engineering team has a great term called Technical Debt, which is the accumulation of coding shortcuts and operational inefficiencies over the years in the name of getting product out the door faster that weighs on the company’s code base like debt weighs on a balance sheet. The Value of Paying Down Technical Debt.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Then there are the kinds of insidious liabilities that don’t show up on a traditional balance sheet. But to acquire more of these in 2018, first we must build the kinds of “softer” assets that power and fuel our business’ cash-generating engines. Of those ultimate and most important assets, cash and marketable securities.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. The cultural tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a financial structure which balanced risk, return and obscene returns, allowed this system flourish in technology clusters in United States, particularly in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

Attached please find last month’s balance sheet and P&L. The [REDACTED] is a $XXX per month burn. All of our hosting and tools come in at just under $XXX per month and our core team payroll+benefits is ~$XXX per month. Maybe we’re the first company in history whose zero cash date keeps getting extended without any revenue. ??

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Teten: For a large corporate, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a dedicated fund (possibly with external investors) vs. a 100% on-balance sheet investor? A lot of venture investing is done on the balance sheet, meaning there is no dedicated fund and investing is done more opportunistically.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

If Google starts sending people to the wrong places, Google will lose market share to other search engines. Social Media is also important to search engines. Both will help your balance sheet. Social Media will humanize your brand. You know what Google wants? To send people to a business that is real.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Balance Sheet 167

Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Hiring startup engineers? SaaS Startup Balance Sheets: How Much Cash & How Much Debt to Raise – crowdspring.co/XyDAJ3. They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT. This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. – [link]. 1s051td.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

3) Innovation in Financial Engineering . These are still very expensive projects for anyone to undertake on their own balance sheet. Fortunately, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of innovation around financial engineering and deployment models. Financial engineering applied to new sectors.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

You can take some business courses so you can learn the difference between a simple spreadsheet and a balance sheet. This means good content marketing with quality SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on your chosen keywords. If that’s you, you have a couple of options for overcoming this issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Startups can’t hope to outspend a giant with a fat balance sheet. The message here is focus , reiterated by every advisor and investor. Innovation-driven mindset and actions.

Balance Sheet 120

Balance Sheet Metrics Entrepreneur Engineer 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Appendix of your business plan has one of the leading cause of death of startups: the financial spreadsheets you attached as your Income Statement, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements. Spread out in front of everyone around the conference table were the latest Income Statement, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

Traditionally, engineering, sales, and marketing have all focused on the immovable launch date. Financial progress is tracked using metrics like income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. Yet without direct and continuous customer contact, it’s unknown whether the features will hold any appeal to customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. You might consider intellectual property and real estate, too, especially where their true value isn’t represented on the balance sheet. Structuring the Desired Deal. Typical ones include inventory, accounts receivable and fixed assets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Startups can’t hope to outspend a giant with a fat balance sheet. The message here is focus , reiterated by every advisor and investor. Innovation-driven mindset and actions.

Balance Sheet 120

Balance Sheet Metrics Entrepreneur Engineer 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The bad news is that as a startup founder you have no brand, you have no balance sheet, you have investors behind you, you have employees that you’re responsible for, you have an impact you’re trying to make on people’s lives while building a business. This is called positioning and it’s different from marketing.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 25, 2021

Two things popped up in the last few days that are making it clear to me that there’s another issue all of us — whether you’re a CEO or CXO or an entry level employee — will face.

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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. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

I’m not saying you shouldn’t grow engineering or do PR. I’m saying something simpler: protect your balance sheet and make sure you have enough cash to weather a slowdown and don’t let your reserves dip too low before raising more capital unless you have no choice. limit your fixed costs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Metrics.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

At the least, historical numbers must include the latest income statement and balance sheet, showing activity through the latest period. Engineer” your needs if possible so that you give 20-35% to investors on the first professional investor round. It is a disincentive to you and a burden to them.

Hockey Stick 63

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Metrics.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory - income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models - seems like another planet.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Infrastructure: also known as heavy engineering, heavy/highway, or heavy civil, and usually encompasses large-scale public works projects, highways, roads, bridges, dams, utilities, and water/wastewater systems. Projected Balance Sheet showing three years of assets, liabilities, and capital, to indicate projected net worth.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. PlanGrid, on the other hand, realized the complexity of construction workflows — captured nicely in this Tweetstorm by ex-PlanGrid engineer and current Gatsby.js 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

I love asking businesses, where does data sit on your balance sheet? And the way we use it for images makes it much clearer. And then you take that approach to text. Yes, priming is important. Yes, the prompt is important. Cause they just don't value it. They all know that data driven and data informed, but nobody really values data.

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Advertising Analytics San Diego Networking 82

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The bad news is that as a startup founder you have no brand, you have no balance sheet, you have investors behind you, you have employees that you’re responsible for, you have an impact you’re trying to make on people’s lives while building a business. This is called positioning and it’s different from marketing.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Because in a recession, the thing that turns a recession into a depression is there's a shock like this, we're all afraid for our business, our balance sheet. And as you start to lean into this conversation, is how you think about your balance sheet, right? And you're touching on.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

By redistributing these products to colleges and universities, EAL generated financial aid for 1,132 students seeking degrees from welding to healthcare, from engineering to robotics–the very subjects that will fuel economic development. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

this leadership also attracts the best and the brightest scientists, engineers, and developers from around to the world to our shores. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Record Exports.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

If a great engineer quit, that was my fault. At Loudcloud, when the dot com bubble burst and subsequently sent most of our customers into bankruptcy, it crippled our business and devastated our balance sheet. If someone was promoted for all the wrong reasons, that was my fault. You are all alone.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

We had a simple balance sheet by financing round model in our earlier master template financial model , but this model is more suitable for use in employment negotiations. Since he graduated, he’s now Founder and CEO of a Latin America-focused based startup, Participa.me (“I participate”). Financial Model.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2015

Balance sheets. You’ll find that when you go and type “business loan” into the search engine, you’ll see a lot of different (and confusing) options. Or, reach out to your accountant or bookkeeper to do so. All lenders will ask for different documents. Personal and business tax returns. Income statements.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

It pays for all of our great engineers. I’d keep my personal balance sheet positive and my future options open. I do find it strange that the most valuable skill for any employee in any company isn’t emphasized AT ALL in my experience: sales. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

The Wrong Metrics : Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup's life are burn rate and cash balance.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117