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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

Despite the peaks and valleys in the economy, and the institution of more technologies, this figure has been pretty consistent for years. At the same time, despite these odds, entrepreneurs have gusto about growth. Manage cash flow. At my company, our cash position is reviewed every week, come rain or shine.

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How Much Funding Should You Raise?

Up and Running

The primary issue is a technical one. Consequently, in order to maintain a 50 percent equity position when raising $3 million, the valuation of the business will have to increase from $2 million to $3 million. Receiving more funding often means more due diligence and having to accept higher control provisions from investors.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

Ari Newman is an entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and a friend. He works at Techstars where his responsibility is to ensure that the connections between alumni, mentors, and staff are as robust as they can be – helping entrepreneurs “ do more faster ” day in and day out. In startup time, that feels like forever.

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Why cash is king

BeyondVC

The best plan in my mind is to make sure that any company we invest in has a tremendous market opportunity with a real business model and high operating margins that can eventually generate real cash flow. This is due, in large part, to the overall "bearishness" in the market. technology sector. technology sector.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

At some point, some percentage of those users end up actually then leaving reviews. And then those reviews get indexed by Google, and then they end up in Google’s listings, and then more people find it. I’m excited about Yelp. So that’s how one group of users might indirectly then lead to another group of users.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.