Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Name the three top ones, and present your sustainable advantage as well as barriers to entry for new startups. How big is the funding request, and how much equity will you give? Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your forecasts for revenue, expenses and cash flow?

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Sales forecast. This is a financial statement that goes by a few different names—profit and loss statement, income statement, pro forma income statement, P&L (short for “profit and loss”)—but no matter what you call it, it’s an essential report and very important to understand. Sales forecast. Cash flow statement.

Balance Sheet 148

Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

Did I just make a google doc with 3 columns named Company, Link, and Notes? What equity you give early stage advisors matters. The net/net is that early advisors who can 10X your business should formally be involved, usually with equity and sometimes with investment. The best place to see competitors is in the rear view mirror.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Equity .Net Vesting 78

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. Keep it simple and realistic.

Sweat Equity 122

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. While they’ve been hard at work on their product, they’ve also incorporated the company, now named SayAhh (thanks Mac!) historical data).

Balance Sheet 136

Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 136

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:35 PM.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Financial forecast and metrics. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Imagine you receive an email from your bank about refinancing and home equity loans. Secondly, the bank could have paid attention to what I was doing, which was perusing their site and others’ for home equity line options, risks and rewards. Personalization should touch on each. You’re interested, so you decide to click through.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Financial forecast and metrics. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. Keep it simple and realistic.

Sweat Equity 138

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Later you will want to come back and create a proper sales forecast, cash flow forecast, and expense budget. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Financial forecast and metrics. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. At the top of the page, right under your business name, include a one-sentence overview of your business that sums up the essence of what you are doing. Three-year projections are typically adequate, but some investors will request a five-year forecast.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Financial forecast and metrics. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Namely, Suster lists four attributes that any startup seeking VC funding needs to focus on: Target large markets: If your proposed product or service has a very narrow, niche market appeal, it’s less likely to spark a VC’s interest.

Silicon Valley 86

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Further, you demonstrate on your spreadsheet that a venture return to early investors is plausible at a valuation that gives you enough equity to get the job done and to take care of you and your team at exit time. We took an advisor named Howard out there. This early model creation is a sanity check on your idea.

Valuation 48

Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

Black swan is a light name for a global industry destroying asteroid. But even with these actions, the company forecast that its 2020 revenues will be less than half those of 2019, and it announced on May 5 that it would be laying off nearly 1,900 of its employees (about 25% of its workforce). This is a huge challenge for Airbnb.

Vietnam 36

Vietnam Hosting United States Vesting 36

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Haghani observed, “Since investors in private companies inherently lack liquidity, the Value model makes far more sense to me in venture capital and private equity.”. In other words, the trend follower adjusts his buying behavior much more rapidly, which requires liquidity. A tiny number of winners drive VC returns.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

Business plans go by many names: Strategic plans, operational plans, internal plans, and many others. Your company’s sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow. Build from your working sales forecast and expense budget to complete financial projections. Lately, I’ve been focusing on lean business plans.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Lean Forecast Balance Sheet 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. Consider the total amount of funding for doomed projects that comes from VC’s, large company M&A departments, government grants, and private equity firms. How do you know when to pivot and when to persevere? It's self-serving.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Were showing positive return on equity, were showing positive growth per, in value per customer through their digital initiatives. If only we could do amazing, you know, supply chain forecasting, right? It sort of gives the field almost a bad name, right? 07:47): About 25% of them were actually making money.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 65

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Together, we turned Lunchbox, which again was a simple web-based SaaS app, into a cross-platform productivity app named Wunderlist. You can offer both advisors and mentors equity in exchange for support, but be careful not to create artificial interest. in November 2010 (just a few months after we registered the new business).

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder Early Stage 120

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Company Description: The company name, mission, and identity. Funding Request: If requesting funding, then this section would list what type of financing you would like or what type of equity stake partnership would be agreeable to you.

Business Plan 84

Business Plan New York Finance Partner 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Having a forward-thinking mindset can allow you to forecast future problems before they have arisen and find a solution in a more time effective manner. For most founders, your business is like a child, you hope to take it from a small idea and grow it into a household name. Forward Thinking.

Operations 162

Operations PPC Social Media Founder 162

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. And a person I hired named Belinda Johnson, she was my general counsel, then she became my COO, now my board member. We didn't want people not having their equity. Eric Ries : Yeah.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Founders never really likedgiving up as much equity as VCs wanted. The short term forecast is more competition between investors, whichis good news for you. Idont know which name will stick. They dont take boardseats, so they dont need a big percentage of your company. It was a lot of the companyto give up in one shot.

Valuation 92

Valuation Stock Partner Founder 92

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. STANLEY FISCHER NAMED WORLD’S TOP BANK GOVERNOR FOR 2010. following a 5.8%

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

This would be kind of some flow-through income from a passive investment you made from an equity perspective. There is this thing called a death tax of 40 percent, that if you have assets in your estate, in your name, of $5 million or more, I actually think it’s $5.37 Then we move to income from passive investment. Sabrina : Yup?

.Net 85

.Net Capital Gains Distribution Puerto Rico 85

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Research coverage is particularly important for companies with thinly traded stocks, as name recognition is often low, trading can be volatile, and the universe of investor interest is limited. Research coverage for small-capitalization companies in particular has dropped dramatically.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36