Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health.

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Exit Strategy 154

Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s crucial that you have a firm understanding regarding the state of the following metrics: Invoices issued to clients ( accounts receivable ) Invoices paid by clients Invoices received ( accounts payable ) Invoices paid Taxes withheld. Forecast cash flow and manage that forecast carefully. Carefully manage inventory.

Forecast 114

Forecast Software Review Campaign Cash Position 114

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Lean planning is not a product, or a service, it is a methodology, a way of managing your business. A financial plan with a Sales Forecast, Profit & Loss , Cash Flow Forecast , and Balance Sheet. Performance tracking to compare ACTUAL financial results with your planned financials and other key metrics.

Lean 83

Lean Small Business Forecast Technical Review 83

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The business plan, in its many different formats, can be used for a variety of purposes, including validating an idea, getting funded, and managing a business successfully. If you’re creating a plan to manage your business once you’re up and running, a Lean Plan will suit you best. Write the company and management summary.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Lean Forecast Balance Sheet 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Managing the Business. 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. To be clear – Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements are really important at two points in your startup.

Balance Sheet 298

Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 298

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution. 20 th century Management Tools for Execution In the 20 th century business schools and consulting firms developed an amazing management stack to assist companies to execute. StageGate Process.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

More reasonable: a company with a direct sales model may drive revenue growth based on the number of productive sales reps and a quota, with a target that is higher over time. A more mature organization may project future revenues based on their actual sales pipeline, with a probability adjusted percentage based on stage.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Maintain a positive online reputation for your practice as a key management technique. Milestones and metrics.

Business Plan 72

Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible.

Management 78

Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2022

Managing business risk without a clear financial picture is like going on a road trip without a map and hoping you’ll end up at your planned destination. When the business risk is effectively managed, you can determine a clear path forward according to your financial situation. Contribution margin ratio.

Equity 136

Equity .Net Balance Sheet Operations 136

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity).

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Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

Neither management nor investors tolerate “wrong turns” that result in delays. Even worse, a start-up’s investors are managing their financial expectations by this date as well. Financial progress is tracked using metrics like income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. where they can “launch” the product.

Balance Sheet 335

Balance Sheet Business Model Customer Development Metrics 335

Berkonomics

JULY 1, 2021

But the CFO dutifully followed the VC command to spend and managed the spending process well – even if it exceeded reasonable standards of control over the ever-increasing inventory, headcount, and fixed expenses as the infrastructure grew. For me this was nuts. How the CFO could have saved the company. The moral is simple. .

Balance Sheet 62

Balance Sheet Cofounder Cash Position Burn Rate 62

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The CFO dutifully followed the VC commands to spend, and managed the spending process well – even if it exceeded reasonable standards of control over the ever-increasing inventory, headcount, and fixed expenses as the infrastructure grew. We never saw, and he never mentioned the balance sheet and cash position.

Balance Sheet 71

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Cash Position Forecast 71

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” A multiple is a company value divided by a metric. cash flows beyond that forecast period).

Valuation 36

Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. Tie the P&L forecast to the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement and generate snapshots of what the Financial Statements will look like each year for the next 5 years. Build a financial model that forecasts the P&L. historical data).

Balance Sheet 136

Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 136

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Likewise, although the management summary is usually presented toward the end of a finished business plan, it might be an easy place to start writing. Finally, you’ll want to outline the key metrics you’ll be tracking to make sure your business is headed in the right direction. Company and management summary. Key Metrics.

Business Plan 134

Business Plan Balance Sheet Forecast Lean 134

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. It is understanding what your numbers mean and how to best manage them.

Finance 37

Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Companies that become a big subset of your revenue are likely strategic alliances, though, which is a later section. Key metrics.

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Management Team. In that case, you can dispense with details about the management team, funding requirements, and traction, and instead treat the executive summary as an overview of the strategic direction of the company, to ensure that all team members are on the same page. Milestones and Metrics.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Small Business Force

AUGUST 10, 2013

You don't have to learn how to be an accountant, but you do have to understand cash flow, cost of goods sold and operating profit.You have to be able to read an income statement and a balance sheet. And you need to understand and manage to the three or four key metrics that drive your business.

Entrepreneur 37

Entrepreneur Balance Sheet Finance Sales 37

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Maybe you want to transition from being a solo real estate agent flipping houses on the ground to being a manager of a real estate team. Milestones and metrics. Be specific.

El Paso 61

El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. What are the key drivers and metrics? Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company?

Silicon Valley 35

Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In his various roles in the financial industry, Patrick McCarthy has most recently worked as Vice President Commercial Relationship Manager with Bank of the Cascades, which has 35 companies from the craft beverage industry as customers. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 23, 2003

” My answer is quite simple-every company we invest in must have IPO potential (IPO potential as defined by non-bubble metrics) but along the way if someone makes an offer for the company because it is an attractive, rapid growth business, we can evaluate it appropriately. That is a losing proposition. What does this all mean?

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Exit Strategy Balance Sheet IPO Valuation 68

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x This number looks relatively low compared to $330B+ of cash and cash equivalents sitting on the balance sheet of the cloud giants and public companies in our global cloud Index.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In his various roles in the financial industry, Patrick McCarthy has most recently worked as Vice President Commercial Relationship Manager with Bank of the Cascades , which has 35 companies from the craft beverage industry as customers. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

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. People, not just metrics. He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management. So then what?

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Ultimately, all the numbers translate into three financial statements – the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. In the future, there will be a daily transaction metric (Daily transaction revenue) that replaces trial clients. Or daily revenue. Daily numbers, weekly numbers, monthly numbers.

Balance Sheet 158

Balance Sheet Revenue Metrics Leadership 158

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.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

My original vision for the class was to use the business model canvas as a framework to teach engineering students all the nine elements of the business model: customer, distribution channel, revenue, get/keep/grow, value proposition, activities, resources, partners and costs. Things That Needed Constant Reminders.

Lean 248

Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 248

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.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36