Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

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

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Statisco Economic Analytics. Discuss.

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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. will go a long way in humanizing your business and revenue will go up as a result. Both will help your balance sheet. Social Media will humanize your brand.

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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. Intel under their last two CEOs delivered more revenue and profit than any ever before. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable.

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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

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. Then value the acquisition in the context of your business, giving consideration to the likely cost savings and potential revenue lift that can result from combined capabilities. Structuring the Desired Deal.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

If you are a going business with a track record of revenues, then the importance of accurate current financial statements cannot be overstated. If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. Let’s start with the basics.

Hockey Stick 63

Hockey Stick Liquidity Event Valuation Balance Sheet 63

Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Census Bureau, in 2014, the construction industry as a whole generated $960 billion in annual revenue, and according to the U.S. 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.

SBA 60

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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.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

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

Acquisition 62

Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

What, how much are you spending on ads in total as a percentage of total top line revenue? 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.

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Advertising Analytics San Diego Networking 83

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. Revenue at Ning is soaring and team morale is high. If we missed the quarterly earnings target, that was my fault.

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Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

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. For my start-up, I built a very robust operational and financial model with a detailed revenue build up and a validated cost structure. Financial Model.

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Employee IRR Startup Mexico 155

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. Things That Needed Constant Reminders. The same holds true for pushing the students.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Building a product involves a large up-front time investment , and as a result is far riskier than becoming a consultant because you have to wait months to find out if your effort will generate revenue. As a former software engineer I hate to admit that sometimes the easiest thing to do is build the software. at 12:49 pm [.]

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

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. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. You’re the engineer; you’re the person who creates the product or service.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers. So that’s the headline.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers. So that’s the headline.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. But that was $250 million of money on our own balance sheet.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. On the positive side, corporate profits are up, their balance sheets have been repaired and they have recapitalized themselves to have lower amounts of debt relative to equity. was still a term being bandied about.

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