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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits.

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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

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CDFI program awardees financed 13,300 businesses. To find a CDFI, visit the Opportunity Finance Network. Search for community lenders in your area. Ask them about the loan products they offer ( lines of credit , term loans, or commercial real estate financing), the interest rate, and lending terms. Do your homework.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

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It’s also a nice touch to customize the site with search boxes for recreational products and medical products, respectively, as well as for indicas, sativas, and hybrids. Your financial plan helps you track your finances so you can accurately gauge your business’s performance. It is important to showcase your products with visuals.

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No Accounting For Startups

Steve Blank

Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. 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. Here’s why.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. Act Like a Startup.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

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. Second, the leaders of these companies tended to be those who excelled at finance, supply chain or production. Lessons Learned.

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

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How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

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