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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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What Do I Do If My Business Runs Out Of Cash?

YoungUpstarts

Once you have achieved a calm headspace, take a survey of your cash position: How much cash is left? When is the next payroll due? If you answered “no” to #2, you need to scramble to get cash in time for #3. The fast options to get business cash are: Collecting from customers. Is it enough to cover payroll?

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

Feld Thoughts

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). This second kind of seed financing can be a double-edged sword for the entrepreneur and company if not very carefully managed.

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10 Things Every Small Business Needs To Do

Up and Running

Do you depend on supplies that vary in price due to market conditions (fuel for instance)? There are a series of “levers” in your business that will affect your cash position. It turns out when they dug into the business they had multiple product lines that were dragging down the profits due to terrible margins.

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

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.