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How to Run a Productive Monthly Business Plan Review Meeting

Up and Running

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most importantly, we review our cash position and cash flow. What does our cash flow forecast look like for the next few months?

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

But I also see founders who are in an amazing cash position, even though they’re not experiencing massive tailwinds, doing very aggressive things. And this really depends on where your cash position is, what the status of your investors is that, and how easy it is to go out and generate more cash if one of the extremes happens.

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Why cash is king

BeyondVC

As he discusses in his blog post: Why I decided to pull our IPO filing. This is quite similar to a lot of SAAS oriented businesses that may sign up customers for one year contracts and collect the cash today but recognize the revenue over the life of the contract. There are three reasons for doing so: 1.

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How to Improve Financial Metrics That Matter

Up and Running

If you’d like to learn more about financial metrics, check out the Sageworks Profitcents blog. Cash-assets ratio. The cash-assets ratio is a key measure of liquidity and one of several coverage ratios that tell creditors about a company’s likelihood of default. How to improve your cash-assets ratio.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . Do you have any books, podcasts, or blog posts that you recommend to CEOs thinking about growth in their startup?

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RideAustin SXSW Key Learnings — and wow — there were a lot…

Austin Startup

They have a different cash position than our small non-profit and have national awareness aspirations — so I suspect they will say that the ROI was positive (and it probably was for their goals). After our last blog post, we learned that other ridershares use a different definition of ‘pickup times’.

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The Financial Wealth Ratio

Start Up Blog

And while trading large capital assets may generate actual cash returns, that return is singular and only available at the point of transaction. Unless we happen to be in the business of trading assets, it doesn’t provide a true month to month reflection on our cash position.