Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2013

There are a series of “levers” in your business that will affect your cash position. Be the first to know when a customer gives you a bad review, or someone raves about your business online. Talk to customers and ask them how they heard about you. You need to talk to your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Entrepreneurs don’t realize that Facebook spent over $100 million, before revenues from advertising turned cash positive. Until a new brand has national recognition or high promotion, it won’t be found or used by local customers or out of town visitors. Business founders need deep pockets for this model.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2020

You need cash in the bank to operate, to pay employees, and to keep the doors open. If you’re out of cash, you’re out of business. In times of crisis and uncertainty, understanding your cash position is even more important. How to handle cash flow in a crisis. Tips for reducing your cash burn rate.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Whether online through your ecommerce site or in person through your sales department, the time it takes for the process from sale to invoicing to customer payment to accounting updates can take forever, reducing your cash position.

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Software eCommerce Architecture Cash Position 189

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Positive cash flow is when you have more cash flowing into your business than out of it. This means that your cash spending is less than the amount of cash you received from your customers, new loans or investment in your business, or sales of assets that you owned.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If you find you have customers who are majorly delinquent, this may be the time to end those relationships if they cannot be rectified. It is easiest to tighten up AR in advance of a recession, when customers have excess cash. Diversify your Customers. Gain and Retain Customers. What to Do when a Recession Hits.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day. And so the question is: how do you respond to that customer behavior? We opened up all of that data to our team.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

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. . You’re going out to acquire customers. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2016

How to improve your cash-assets ratio. A key way to boost a business’s cash-assets ratio is to boost its cash position, and there are numerous approaches to do this. Some businesses extend different credit terms to different customers based on creditworthiness and the overall relationship involved, according to McNeilly.

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Metrics .Net Cash Position Finance 60

BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

While the company doesn’t look profitable on an income statement perspective because GAAP requires GoDaddy to recognize a domain name registration over the effective period of registration, GoDaddy is in a wonderful cash position because it collects the cash upfront when someone buys the domain.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

While the company’s sales figures increase, its profitability often narrows to a point where cash flow issues occur. In the worst case scenario, the company lapses into a negative cash position. All new business opportunities need to be carefully considered. And it’s not always just about new business.

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Up and Running

JUNE 10, 2013

In this article we are just going to tackle the simple issue of what happens when you have to give your customer longer credit terms that your supplier gives you. Balancing your cash flow. By the time your obligations are due, your customer would have completed payment to you. It may not be instantly obvious, but cash is king.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2020

When your business is first starting out and serving a smaller customer base , it can be fairly easy to draft personalized sales quotes in a timely manner. All of these benefits allow you to focus on selling and leave administrative work like price calculations, quote customization, approvals, etc. Deliver faster quotes.

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Software Review Software Sales Small Business 113

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We do this because we want our product to the best it can be and, most of all, used by the customers we built it for. It’s not always hard to get feedback, particularly when dealing with early adopters, you’ll find that customers are often very willing to share their thoughts. Your customers don’t use your product. Is it clear?

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Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

This insight delves into how never to run out of cash. There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: inject cash through borrowing or investment, decrease spending or payments on debt, increase efficiency of operations, and increase revenues or advance payments from customers.

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Vesting Cash Position Revenue .Net 63

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. Target market (intended customers). Creating a buyer persona puts you in the customer’s shoes to guide marketing and sales decisions. Key customers.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

I should mention that Fog Creek is just starting, were a new company, and we dont have a lot of cash. They will as soon as we can afford them, but I dont want any misunderstandings :) As time goes on and our cash position becomes stronger, these benefits will start to kick in. That means that these benefits havent kicked in yet.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Without a thorough understanding of how much cash you have, where it’s coming from, where it’s going, and on what schedule, you’re going to have a hard time running a healthy business. Your balance sheet is a snapshot of your business’s financial position—at a particular moment in time, how are you doing?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 28, 2017

But our thoughts were that a majority of the incremental rides would be from visitors that wouldn’t likely be RideAustin customers long term. 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).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. ” Take advantage of being on-demand and allow customers to try and buy your service with as little friction as possible. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. 16 comments: BdH. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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