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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

Up and Running

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Be specific.

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How to Run Your Company Based on Metrics: What, Why, How, Who, and When

David Teten

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. Gross Profit.

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How to value your SaaS company

VC Adventure

If you read my blog regularly you know I love (LOVE) metrics. They took the 92 public SaaS companies and analyzed their key operating metrics. The valuation metrics show this clearly. So no surprise that when River Cities Capital released an overview of SaaS operating and valuation benchmarks, I hung on every juicy detail.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

Up and Running

If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. 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.

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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. Michael first recommends that anyone serious about financial modeling study the Spreadsheet Standards Review Board’s Best Practice Spreadsheet Modeling Standards.

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Lean Planning Drives Growth For Small Business

Up and Running

After 5 years of being CEO of Palo Alto Software , and over 15 years in the start-up and entrepreneurial world I am convinced that the only way to grow your company as quickly as possible, while not getting ulcers, becoming an insomniac, and aging more than your years, is to engage in Lean Planning. Why were your numbers wrong?

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