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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   First , dividends.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. Here's my conversation with Carl Liebert. He shared his reflections on why these approaches work. It's member-owned.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Conversion rate is a ratio and ratios are a huge problem. We don’t know how the systems we use calculate conversion rate. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. E.g. current traffic, conversion to product pages, % that view images, current conversion rate, current conversion rate for image viewers.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

This can enable chatbots to have a conversation with people. AI can also be used to automate data conversion such as translations and decryptions, accelerating the ability to derive actionable insights. Conversely, AI-enabled cyber-defensive tools can proactively locate and address network anomalies and system vulnerabilities.