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When Is It Time For Your Startup To Stop Relying On In-House Accounting?

YoungUpstarts

As your business grows, you may no longer have time or expertise to effectively manage your finances. Make a Decision About Which Accounting Method to Use to Track Your Finances. To start, you need to determine which accounting system works best for your needs – cash versus accrual. Review Your Accounting Tools.

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How to Improve Financial Metrics That Matter

Up and Running

In addition to improving cash levels and earnings, cutting expenses, and reducing debt, companies seeking credit should consider focusing on improving key financial metrics that can best predict default. See Also: The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor. The 5 financial metrics you should be improving.

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

Feld Thoughts

Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing. No updates, screen comps, or metrics have been publicly shared yet.

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

Cracking the Code

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.