Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
He said, “After we graduated we took our great idea, holed up in my apartment and spent months researching and writing a business plan. We even entered it in the business plan competition. Then they had a five-year P&L statement, balance sheet, cash flow and cap table. It was an exquisitely crafted plan.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.
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Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 12, 2011
Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. Anytime the financial model indicates that SayAhh will run out of cash, determine how you will raise capital to ensure liquidity and be sure to properly account for the debt or equity transaction on the balance sheet and Cap Table. historical data).
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 10, 2017
The original business plan was to harvest tumors, collect genomic tests on them, use a smart database system to match their disease profiles and all annotated data against known trials and therapies, and return the results to the treatment team at the bedside.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
This is a good plan for someone with kids, because it takes mostof the risk out of starting a startup. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Risk and reward are usuallyproportionate, however: you should expect a plan that cuts the riskof starting a startup also to cut the average return.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 16, 2012
Foursquare was always about connecting to commercial establishments--not that they're doing tons of revenue yet, but at least you could see where they're going. Twitter has lots of revs, b/c they've been about broadcast since the day they hid @ replies--and when you're a broadcast channel, you're going to get business presence and revenues.
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