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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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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). In the U.S.,

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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. When you are addressing the problem in the market, you want to tell that in the format of a compelling story. That’s because most people say, “Everybody in X or Y is my market.”

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

Trick 2: Make local digital transactions take place in lower taxed overseas market where the company has an office. Trick 3: Get inter company loans from other divisions of the same company at above market interest rates, pay back the interest to offset local market profits. Where the corporate tax rate 17%. (My