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7 Ways to Improve the Financial Management of Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Business owners must deeply understand their company’s financial health, track their expenses and revenues, and adjust accordingly. Adopting best practices and implementing effective tools and strategies can streamline your financial processes, reduce costs, and improve your bottom line.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. What is revenue going to look like? Budgeting and forecasting, it’s not rocket science. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars.

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The Top 5 Signs It’s Time to Consider Outside Business Funding

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Upfront costs for startups can be extremely expensive, and a term loan is especially useful to finance your expansion efforts. Do your homework by doing a revenue forecast. Mull it over carefully to avoid getting deep into debt, or worse, closing shop altogether due to bankruptcy.

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SaaS CRO: What You’re Not Testing (But Should)

ConversionXL

The Pareto Principle states that you get 80% of your revenue from 20% of your customers. Metric examples: Monthly recurring revenue (MRR); Average revenue per account (ARPA); Engagement; Customer lifetime value (LTV); Upsell/cross-sell conversion rates. Do you include revenue sharing with other parties? Reactivation.