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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. I call this “using your balance sheet as a strategic weapon.” otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less).

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3 Ways Structure Can Take Your Tech Startup To New Heights

YoungUpstarts

Whether it’s burn rates, balance sheets, or P&L and cash flow statements, financial documents say a lot about your operations — and you need to be able to speak the language. Look no further than Google and Oracle , and you’ll see that no company is immune from IP impasses. Get it all in writing.

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Startups and Intellectual Property (IP)

BeyondVC

Lately questions about Intellectual Property or IP have been cropping up left and right. Eliot Durbin (my partner at BOLDstart Ventures) and I had a long discussion this morning in preparation for his panel today about IP and patents. Yes, having core tech or IP matters but patents are a different question altogether.

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Startups and Intellectual Property (IP)

BeyondVC

Lately questions about Intellectual Property or IP have been cropping up left and right. Eliot Durbin (my partner at BOLDstart Ventures) and I had a long discussion this morning in preparation for his panel today about IP and patents. Yes, having core tech or IP matters but patents are a different question altogether.

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Venture Debt 101

Up and Running

You’re essentially opening up your “financial kimono” to a new entity, which might be viewed as a negative to many growing businesses (think monthly income statements, balance sheets and compliance certificates, annual tax returns, collateral audits, and more).

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

Up and Running

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. I know that one of my colleagues on the line is going to post the link to a great article about how to write a good one-page business plan.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes. 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. If this sounds ridiculous, it’s because it is.