VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

While estimates vary widely, we forecast it may generate up to $5 trillion by 2030 Value Creation in the Metaverse, McKinsey June 2022. If we are headed for a prolonged downturn, there are some tactical lessons from the 2008 era, namely preserving capital and staying focused on your long-term vision.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

You don’t do anything that doesn’t have a business purpose, so you don’t describe your management team (to name one example) unless you need that section for outsiders. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. You start simple, and grow it organically. Startup businesses.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

which really means, are you really so naïve as to have a discussion with a VC and you’re worried about sharing your high-level financial results and forecasts?). One VC (I won’t name but with whom I still won’t work today) called Marc Benioff directly. Founder friction / departures. “So why are we here?”

Technical Review 316

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Cap Table 316

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. This elusive ideal, something that resides in the eyes of the beholder, the ghost of aesthetic perception – the physical and mental feeling that grips and does not let go, Beauty goes by many names. Lucintel forecasts that the beauty industry globally will grow at a rate of 3.4

Demand 138

Demand Software Review Technical Review SMS 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Founders think in options. And when you get their forecasts they’re always sandbagged.

Sales 382

Sales Startup Technical Review Matching 382

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting.

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Portfolio Chicago Sales Incubator 364

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. Budgeting and forecasting, it’s not rocket science. You can’t forecast. I don’t know how to forecast. Good morning.

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Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I see way too many startup founders who don’t have experience in selling and probably don’t feel that comfortable going to customers and asking for orders. This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. I often hear early stage founders telling me about their initial sales successes.

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Hiring Sales Startup Early Stage 346

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] He's a co-founder of Thriveal firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Marketing Podcast with Jason Blumer.

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CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 70

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

1- The Forecast Podcast. The Forecast Podcast from Ahmad Munawar at Boutique Growth has great format and guests (I don’t just say that because I was a guest– I was already a fan). He interviews the very best, with some of the blockbuster names like Arnold Schwarzenegger!! Photo Credit: Reuben Swartz.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Hosting Cofounder Forecast 76

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. Together with my co-founders, we started by building a simple web app based task manager on PHP called Lunchbox. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder Early Stage 120

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. Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra.

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 80

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations. You can also find financial forecast discussions between the experts analyzing the pros and cons precisely. Thanks to Jonathan Tian, Credit Yelp ! #4-

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Community Architecture Entrepreneur Networking 95

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Use real names and be as specific as possible about the “pain” that customer had before they used your product and how you’ve alleviated or addressed that pain. This should automatically be included in your pitch presentation anyway. 5 : How do you know how much money you need and could you scale your business with less?

Software Review 147

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 147

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Todd Rammler, president and founder of Michigan CFO Associates. powered by

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Michigan CPA Small Business Hiring 70

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

by Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe. A common mistake is using a top-down model to forecast financials. With bottom-down forecasting, you predict what company activities will drive results, which leads to money in the bank. Use a Bottom-Up Model. Observe the 10/20/30 Rule. education, specialization, etc.).

Cofounder 185

Cofounder Silicon Valley Forecast Business Plan 185

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. Indeed some of the biggest names out there started off as a completely different business; including Twitter, Nintendo and most recently, Slack. He is also the founder of neatly.io Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Investors love to be able to see what you told them in forecasts in prior years and then compare with how you actually performed. In this way investors can make some assessments of how well they should believe your future forecasts that you are showing them a year later. Reference Calls I do the exact same for reference calls.

Cap Table 336

Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. Are all co-founders equal, Clavier asked?

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’d like to take a step back and discuss the significance of IP as a component of the overall value that founders intend to create as they grow the company. This could include anything from a clever domain name in the coveted.com TLD to issued patents or patent applications that could serve as barriers to entry for potential competitors.

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

His name is often associated with other successful Israelis such as: Shai Agassi , Better Place founder and CEO and former next-in-line to become CEO of SAP, Safra Catz , CFO and co-president of Oracle, and David Perlmutter , an EVP of Intel and GM of Intel Architecture Group.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. Back then it was a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. And when you get their forecasts they’re always sandbagged. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies.

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Sales Technical Review Matching Hiring 316

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. More often than not, they know only one name: Julliard. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. The results?

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. Ross Kimbarovsky is founder and CEO at crowdspring , where more than 220,000 experienced freelancers help agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profits with high-quality custom logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and company naming services.

Business Plan 147

Business Plan Balance Sheet Non-Compete Forecast 147

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. 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.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In most startups, the founder is the first salesperson and while it may be difficult to let that go you’ll eventually scale, add sales reps, or maybe some form of a Sales Manager once there are more than a couple of reps. ( Post 1 of 4 in the series on Scaling CROs). You can find this post on the Bolster blog here ).

Revenue 62

Revenue Hiring Forecast Early Stage 62

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through our network of delivery partners, Start Up Loans provides pre-application support with business plans and cash-flow forecasts to help you get into the best possible position to succeed. TSM: Getting funding is usually a huge challenge for startups, what are a couple of tips to help founders with their loan applications/pitches?

Early Stage 107

Early Stage Forecast Small Business Business Plan 107

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. The value proposition is well articulated, validated, and very clean.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

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. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your forecasts for revenue, expenses and cash flow? Forecasts are evaluated as a level of commitment and a measure of your business savvy.

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Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

by Cameron Batt, founder of Crum Consult. Another reason why this article is focusing on management consulting firms is because I founded one of the fastest growing management consultancies and the insight I’ve gained can be useful for any business founders. Some backstory. This even relates to shop owners and local-store managers.

Operations 162

Operations PPC Social Media Founder 162

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

How To Create The Life You Want In One Year written by Shawna Salinger read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lisa McCarthy In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lisa McCarthy, co-founder and CEO of the Fast Forward Group. Let's get started. (00:30): This is John Jantsch. We start with the finish.

Cofounder 80

Cofounder Programming Conversion America 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2012

Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Search on any product name for census data, online research reports, trade association publications, and online newspapers with relevant statistics.

Marketing 243

Marketing Entrepreneur Forecast Business Plan 243

Berkonomics

JULY 1, 2021

Here’s one that most small company founders and CEO’s miss until it may be too late. That may seem extreme to many a founder or CEO, but it serves a purpose. Another of my stories, this time about a CFO in name only. That person is not a bookkeeper, counting the past, but an expert at forecasting and control.

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Balance Sheet Cofounder Cash Position Burn Rate 62

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2012

These 10 past and present CEOs, founders, and all-around corporate stars bear witness that you might be better off leap-frogging campus for the real world: Peter Thiel : The uncontested leader of the anti-college movement is PayPal co-founder and former CEO Peter Thiel. According to him, the best education is investing in yourself.

Cofounder 274

Cofounder Engineer Hosting Forecast 274

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246