View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. The point here is not to do a granular forecast of revenue or number of users/customers, but to put a stake in the ground so investors understand what you believe is achievable with X amount of resources given Y timeframe. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Equity allocation is also inextricably tied to the stage of financing. At that point, the options are converted just before the sale, and the shares are then sold with the rest of the firm. nominal versus market price), this is seen as quick revenue. The differences between shares and options.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you having trouble getting financing for your business through your bank or credit union? If you can’t get a traditional loan through your financial institution, you should consider alternative financing. To see what alternative financing options you have, keep reading below. Short-Term Loans.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But with the added benefit of having people you trust handling the rest. Track finances early. Even if you’re not a numbers person, you need to track your finances. Even if you’re not a numbers person, you need to track your finances. Consider financing early. You don’t even need your own financial data.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

No Financing/Investor Interest – 8%. Rule #2: Revenue is your first priority. Rule #2: Revenue is your first priority. In this context, revenue can be an investment as well as sales. Product Mis-Timed – 13%. Lose Focus – 13%. Disharmony on Team/Investors – 13%. Pivot gone Bad – 10%.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. Involve the board and the rest of the company. External Assessment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. In SaaS (or any recurring revenue business) this is also a very difficult task.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Hiring great team mates is the only way to ensure that you rest easy when delegating responsibilities. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues. Felix manages sales, marketing and finance at Talkative, and often writes about technology, startups and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. The focus should always be on execution, revenue, and profits. In all these cases, a bust is inevitable, and everyone may lose. Overconfidence.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 10, 2018

Resting on your laurels? At Phorest Salon Software , we provide advice to salon businesses on our blog, from setting targets, to financing, managing staff, marketing strategies and more. In our salon example, our company goal is to increase our client base and revenue from a specific target market.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Managing your finances is critical, regardless of your age. Keeping the books balanced and your bank balance in the green is important, whether concerning your personal or professional finances. Setting aside some time to go over your finances on a regular basis is always recommended. Keep The Finances Separate.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 5, 2023

There are many financing options available for self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs. For instance, you can apply with Giggle Finance for a cash advance for independent contractors. Your business will not have to reach into its own pockets for funds to maintain its cash flow with these financing options.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. In recent years, eCommerce companies have begun to increase revenue by selling products directly via social media networks. Every year, social media coverage expands.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. Here’s a bit more on the four trends in artificial intelligence that affect enterprises: 1.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s also an armed globally-dispersed Sales and Support teams, so we’re selling to our 70,000 existing customers as well as thousands of new customers per month, which means we’ll end up adding more new revenue in one month than a small company will take in over a whole year. The tradeoff, however, is predictability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

My original vision for the class was to use the business model canvas as a framework to teach engineering students all the nine elements of the business model: customer, distribution channel, revenue, get/keep/grow, value proposition, activities, resources, partners and costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference. It has grown recurring revenue by more than 500% and deal-size by 276%.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Increasing my revenue by attracting more leads is my plan for 2022. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #10- 12- Boost revenue. 6- Boost organic traffic.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2020

This does not mean that you need 2-3 years’ worth of documents showcasing your revenue and cost of goods sold, but you’ll likely need reports that show at least 12-months of financial activity. Aside from risky industries, there are also those that are excluded from SBA loans, no matter how good the rest of your application is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A breadth of understanding of common business principles , such as management, personnel and finance, is more important than a depth of knowledge in any specific area. In my view, practical business courses in school are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Join an existing startup for a reality check.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2015

By combining Net Promoter Score data with customer-by-customer revenue data, you can estimate the amount of revenue derived from bad profits. Even if you don’t have access to financial data for your company or a competitor, you usually can estimate the percentage of bad profit revenue.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Don't just rest on what comes easiest. If you had zero revenue from now on, on what date would you run out of money? Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). Cartoon by Andertoons.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Make sure that the milestone projections are consistent with the rest of the business plan – particularly the financial plan. Detail all revenue streams. Be sure to include all revenue streams. Be consistent. Be aggressive but credible. Be consistent with your pro-forma statements. Need help with your business plan?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

“We will never need another financing.” ” “This financing will get us to cash flow breakeven.” ” “This is our last financing before we become profitable.” “This is the last financing we’ll ever need” is the lead in statement.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2016

If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. The tone of the advice is fine, but it creates a total mess if you follow it without pondering the implications as you actually start to scale up revenue and expenses.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. To provide relevant perspective, listing past convertible note(s) and/or equity financing(s) including total round size and valuation (caps) is helpful. develop and launch X product, reach Y number of users, generate $Z amount revenue).

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